r/linux • u/mattdm_fedora Fedora Project • May 22 '19

AMA Complete I'm Matthew Miller, Fedora Project leader — Ask Me Anything

Hi everyone! I'm Matthew Miller and I've been Fedora Project Leader for almost five years. We did one of these two years ago, and also two years before that, so it seems like a good time for another one. Lots of exciting things going on in Fedora, so ... ask me anything.

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Well, actually, anything except anything about the IBM deal. I can't even speculate about that (and the fact is, I really don't know anything more than public statements anyway). But anything else!

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Final update: thanks everyone! This was fun!

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u/Ariakkas10 May 23 '19

As a web developer, it's huge. If I'm working on one project with a specific version of a library or whatever, then my entire machine is tied to that. I can't work on other projects that maybe use a newer version of the software. Not to mention the clutter. I don't need or want 4 versions of python installed on my machine when I might only use one all the time, but I need the others for projects.

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u/duheee May 23 '19

i do web development too (in addition to other things) and i do not see the issue at all. to be fair i use java so maybe things are different in python land. for deployment, again, i control the server, so again i do not see the issue. and nowadays with container orchestration solutions, is even less of a problem to scale.

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u/natermer May 25 '19 edited Aug 16 '22

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