On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Luis Villa <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ambitious, and outside of fedora's current core competency. Still, > worth exploring, I think. Expanding on this a bit, since Max bizarrely seemed to love it, and since the other thing I have to do tonight is writing out minutes (boooooring.) Fedora's core competency is, it seems to me, matching Red Hat engineering expertise with community contributions to create products that can be said, reasonably objectively, to work or not work. Running ccmixter might have some critical differences. The following are questions I have that probably could help determine whether or not these differences exist and/or matter: * 'community contributions': who is the ccmixter community? who in the current fedora community has the right interests/skills to reach out to the existing ccmixter community? to grow the ccmixter community? Are the contributions to ccmixter similar in kind to fedora contributions, or are they different in some way that matters? * 'products': Fedora marketing and organization is built around the release of software, primarily in large blobs (aka releases.) ccmixter, at the moment, doesn't seem to release things that way: AFAICS, it comes out in dribs and drabs (songs) rather than releases (albums, radio stations). Does this matter? * 'objectively work or not work': it has always seemed to me that the reasonably objective nature of software (it works, or doesn't, roughly speaking) helps free software processes. Obviously, musical 'goodness' is more subjective. Does this matter? * success: in focusing on core competencies, I'm blithely assuming that Fedora is competent :) How does Fedora measure success/competence? do those measures transfer over to ccmixter? I do think that there is an obvious ideological alignment between Fedora and ccmixter. But that can't be enough- there needs to be pragmatic alignment as well. Hopefully these questions help stimulate discussion about that pragmatic alignment. Luis (I miss you too, Max ;) _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
