On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:26, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry guys, catching up on mail, but I did have one comment here: > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > 4. What does it mean to be a formal Fedora Project project, beyond the > > > name? That is, is someone restricted from using the Wiki for the > > > project until then? How about CVS? Plone? > > > > This is one of the recurring questions in my mind. And I don't have an > > obvious answer to it. > > Yeah, I don't think the answer *is* obvious, but I think the answer is > important. > > To me, the answer is *an identified leadership structure that makes > things happen*. My take: any Fedora undertaking that is mature enough to > (a) develop a critical mass of people who *do* something instead of > talking about something, and (b) easily integrate other people who want to > help by handing them useful actions to perform... is mature enough to be > called a Fedora project. > > Really, it's a project when the *participants* decide it's a project... > not when *we* decide it's a project. The board should be encouraging > those "incubator projects" to *take action*, and should reward those that > *do* take action by giving them "official project status". > The draft page I put together the last time this topic came up is on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nman64 Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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