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Modular Server

Summary

The Modularity Working Group would like to propose using the modular infrastructure for creating and delivering the Fedora Server Edition for Fedora 27. While we are still working through some of the kinks leading up to the release of Fedora 26, we believe that the changes to the infrastructure and technology implementations will be available with sufficient time to harden the components in time for the 27 release.

Owner

Name: Langdon White
Email: langdon@fedoraproject.org
Release notes owner:
Edition: Server Edition
Responsible WG: Modularity WG & Server WG

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 27
Last updated: 2017-06-19
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

The modularity effort is fairly well known and significantly more information may be found on the wiki or the YouTube Channel. In short, modularity is attempting to disconnect the lifecycle of applications from 1) each other 2) the operating system while still maintaining the ease of use of a typical Linux Distro.

This change proposal is to release modularity into the mainline of Fedora.

Benefit to Fedora

Scoping the question to this Change Proposal, the benefit to Fedora is to release the multi-lifecycle model for real users. We can prove that most day-to-day operations will be unchanged and that users can opt in to more advanced use cases.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- The Modularity WG, Factory 2.0, Base Runtime, and Server WG teams all have contributions to this effort. The work that each team is doing is significant and wide ranging. We are hoping to:
  - collect and incorporate feedback in to the system management experience of using modules (through dnf)
  - modularize a significant amount of the content available for Fedora Server
  - define tools and best practices for implementing modules and keeping them up to date

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- The Modularity WG would like to support package owners in modularizing their applications

Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engeneering is needed)

- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)