On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My understanding was that no distro, derived from All Fedora Bits (tm) or > not, could not bear the Official Fedora Name unless it was blessed by the > board. Correct > Which probably implies blessed by QA and releng. Did I > misunderstand the policy? Has policy changed, and I'm unaware of it? it means some sort of technical quality assurance. Does it mean that releng must be the group that does this? It does if releng has the will and resources to do the work necessary to do the technical review for all the spin proposals that come in the door. From my reading of jwb's emails and the proposal therein, that isn't what I hearing. >From my reading of jwb's proposal, I'm hearing that releng wants to be responsible for vetting the few spins that we are going to make a big deal about via hosting on our central server. For the larger number of more experimental or niche spins, there is a desire to see another group do a technical assurance that lets such spins use the Fedora trademarks in a blessed fashion.... but be hosted elsewhere. So again, my reading of jwb's proposal in this thread is a two tier technical review process. First part is a baseline technical review by some group(maybe releng maybe its not), that must be passed for spins to get access to the marks...but not access to hosting and the publicity that comes with that. The second part would happen for the small number of spins that 'we' think should be hosted centrally. At that point releng takes on the responsibility of vetting that spin for technical quality. If I'm reading jwb's proposal correctly, I'm perfectly fine with this sort of process. I don't want to overwhelm releng with a lot of spin proposals, and at the same time I don't want to block access to the trademarks unnecessarily for a baseline technical review that could be handled by a community group with less experience than embodied in releng. If we need to put another group together to do that first analysis, I think we can do it by getting all the people working spins now, to sit down and work out a mutual assistance plan as a necessary step before we bless anymore spins. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
