On Jan 29, 2008 7:48 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: > > >> There should be a very compelling reason to call it "Fedora". > >> Because of our draconian trademark policy it becomes rather hard to > >> rid the distro of the term "Fedora", and once you apply the Fedora > >> name to something, they'll likely want to use the logo, and then we > >> run into logo issues, etc, etc... > >> > >> I'd really like to hear a strong compelling reason to apply the term > >> Fedora to a set of code, which by all rights we should be trying to > >> get used in other distributions. > > > > +1 > > To me, this last requirement falls into "The Fedora Board has to think > it's a good idea." Maybe that should simply be step 1 in the process, > to save potentially wasting other people's time/effort. > Well actually steps 1-4 look to be what would be needed for something that doesnt need a fedora name but is a large import. The other big thing that I can see needing is a training/mentoring process on step 4. Some tutorials on how the Fedora politics works, how the patch system works, what the 6-7 month timeline is like and how the project needs to be aware of that... etc. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
