On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:16:35 -0500 (EST) Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Sortof. It seems that Max wants to empower folks in areas to create > > and share things called Fedora without going through releng / QA > > because releng / QA resources are finite. I tend to want this too, > > but in a way that the product is labeled as contrib and not official > > Fedora. > > Sortof right back at you. > > What I want is: > > (1) A clear set of guidelines for what it takes for something to be an > official spin. For example, KDE is an official spin. Games is an > official spin, right? So is Electronics Lab. Is XFCE an official spin? Um... didn't I ask for that with the very first email in this thread? I'm pretty sure I did, because that's the whole reason I started it in the first place. > If I am a person who has created a spin, and I want it to become > "official", I want to know what steps are necessary to take. > > I also want to be able to see the .ks files for all the official spins, > because that will help me to create my own spin in a way that is likely > to have a higher initial quality than if I just go off on my own, > because I'm working from a known-good starting point. Jeremy has a fairly good suggestion for this. > (2) A place for people to share the spins that are not "blessed" like > those in group (1). Perhaps this is just the CustomSpins page on the > Fedora wiki, which can have pointers off to .ks files and hosted spins > elsewhere. This seems reasonable. > (3) A description of how spins in group (1) should be named, and how > spins in group (2) should be named. Named as in how? Do you have an example? > My feeling is that we have talked around a lot of these issues many > times, but never actually codified the decisions in a single place, and > figured out who is responsible for keeping that document updated, or > modifying it when necessary. I think it's partly because no decisions have been made. It's quite hard for either group (rel-eng and the Board) to figure out how to decide on certain things when they keep passing the buck to each other. So here is something I want the _Board_ to decided. Do they want to codify what falls into the official spins category and tell rel-eng, or do they want to leave it up to rel-eng to suggest which spins should be official? IMHO, the Board should have final say in either case but the initial recommendation should come from rel-eng. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
