Board Members, While doing spins is a new thing to all of us, rel-eng is curious as to exactly what qualifications the Board uses to determine if a spin is worth being officially branded and pushed to rel-eng to host on spins.fedoraproject.org. Currently, we have a total of 14 spins that have been proposed to rel-eng as of late. Of these 14, two have been handled so far. Those being the XFCE spin, and the Hindi localized spin. The remaining 12 spins are all localized spins. Doing some back of the hand calculations, the remaining 12 spins will take roughly 8GiB of space for i686 only. If one were to extrapolate this to the absurd, doing an i686 spin for every language currently found on http://translate.fedoraproject.org would take 50GiB of storage space. The machine hosting the spins only has 84GiB of disk space available for now. While that overall size may not sound significant, the fact that all of those spins only differ by very small changes from ISO to ISO is quite alarming. The above counts only for disk, which is admittedly cheap. The remaining factors going into generating a spin aren't as easily measurable. Particularly when we're still trying to figure out the whole process, from submission to test to final hosting. While it's not my intention to belittle the work that has gone on for these spins, I do question whether this is the goal the Board had in mind for spins. In my personal opinion, not speaking for rel-eng or anyone else (since that often seems to get mistaken on this list), officially hosted spins should be reserved for "big ticket" items. XFCE, KDE, FEL, Games are all good examples of those. Things where the package content actually differs to a larger degree from the base Fedora spin. Officially approving localized spins is perfectly acceptable to me, however hosting them and pushing them through the rel-eng process (still being defined) seems largely to be overkill. I think we should reserve that for "Featured Spins", and allow creation and hosting of smaller spins to be done elsewhere. And now that I've said spins entirely too many times in one email (20!), I think I'll try to get un-dizzy. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
