On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:55:25AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:59:55AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:37:29PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> >On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 20:10 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> >> Or perhaps more informatively, in the beginning, the OS was probably the >> >> sole reason for the existence of the Fedora Project. But as time has gone >> >> on we've gotten bigger and things have started to change. The OS is what a >> >> significant number of contributors want to work on. But there's people >> >> working on numerous other things under the Fedora Umbrella now too. CSI is >> >> something you're working on, mirrormanager is something mdomsch is working >> >> on, fedora-classroom is something that nirik is working on, the latam >> >> ambassadors are interested in working on a moodle instance.... Lot's of >> >> code and content is being worked on that's only indirectly related to the >> >> putting together of the OS. >> > >> > >> >One might classify the OS as a delivery mechanism for the majority of >> >our other endeavors. >> >> Agree. Or in the case of mirrormanager, it is the delivery mechansim _for_ >> the OS. I don't consider the relationship there to be indirect at all. >> >In mirrormanager's case, the project is becoming the delivery mechanism for >projects other than Fedora. So it's no longer just a case of us designing >software to deliver Fedora. It's become we're the major contributors to an >upstream project that we use to deliver Fedora. That's evolutionary. MM wouldn't have been written and used in Fedora if Fedora didn't need a better way to mirror it's _distro_. Again, not an indirect relationship. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
