Chris Tyler wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:54 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 13:27 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
Having said that, Sugar and OLPC are a pretty big deal. The spin has been
approved by the board and is (or will be) an official spin.
Small comment. The board gave the Sugar spin the approval to use the
Fedora brand. This doesn't automatically mean that it'll become a
produced and hosted spin in binary format. All it means is that the
spin KS config can live in the spin-kickstarts repo and use the Fedora
branding should somebody create the binary spin from the config. It
would still have to have a Feature proposed and approved by the spins
SIG and by releng before it would be an official spin.
I agree: trademark approval does not automatically mean that the spin
will be hosted and distributed by Fedora infrastructure. I can imagine
that we'll eventually have a much larger number of trademark-approved
spins than we'll want to host and distribute -- h&d decisions should be
made by some combination of the spins SIG, releng, and infra.
I share the idea of having much more trademark approved (and
non-trademark approved "debranded") spin concepts in the spin-kickstarts
repository, and in the spin-kickstarts package, then Fedora will ever be
able to compose, A the Q, host and distribute.
We need to decide terminology here: we have "official spin", "unofficial
spin", and "remix" floating around. "Unofficial spin" is sometimes being
used the way I think "remix" was intended to be used, meaning something
that doesn't have approval to use the primary trademark.
Can we settle on:
- "Remix" for "not approved to use the Fedora trademark" (but eligible
to use the secondary mark). I don't think these will normally be hosted
by Fedora.
- "Spin" for "trademark-approved", further subdivided into:
-- "Unofficial spin" (trademark-approved but has not gone through the
Features process, and not h&d by Fedora)
-- "Offical spin" (trademark-approved and has gone through the Features
processs, h&d by Fedora)
Eventually, the spin-kickstarts package will need to distinguish between
(official) fedora spins, localized spins and community spins, which may
be another answer to the problem of terminology, I think. In the end,
they're all remixes and spins.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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