On 06/28/2011 01:47 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > I think you are overblowing it by a bit. Here are the steps that would > be needed: > > 1) Person A makes a background, image, mp3, etc. > 2) Person B who has signed the FPCA vets the item and makes sure its > license and content is ok (it doesn't rip off something, etc etc) > 3) Person B submits it for Fedora. > 4) Person B deals with issues with item and reports them to Person A > if A wants to know. > > Which is 1:1 with packaging > > 1) Person A makes a program > 2) Person B who has signed the FPCA vets, makes a spec file,etc etc > 3) Person B submits it for Fedora > 4) Person B deals with bugreports by either fixing them or reporting > them upstream. > > The most important reason for doing this is to make sure that the core > is being maintained by committed and invested people. In case, it wasn't clear, my point wasn't that submitting artwork is more problematic than packaging but that FPCA is superfluous in both cases and a warning like the one in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_connect_to_the_design_team_sparkleshare is not helpful or welcoming when there is a explicit license like CC-BY-SA attached to them which is perfectly acceptable. In either case, someone has to check the license and make sure the content or code is acceptable for Fedora. FPCA doesn't help much. The only case where FPCA can partially help is if someone who has signed FPCA submits content or code which is not otherwise explicitly license and IMO, it is better to just get it under a explicit license in that case instead of relying on the FPCA. Always having a explicit license makes it more obvious for someone who wants to reuse it, outside the project. Ex: Fedora wallpapers get packaged by other distros or Fedora spec files getting used by other distros. I think I made my points clear as best as I could. I don't know if FPCA was really voted on or considered by the Fedora Board before but I would like to reiterate that if there is interest from Fedora Board in reconsidering the use of FPCA, I would be happy to submit a proposal on how to accomplish this in more detail but I don't want to spend more effort if this matter is not really open for discussion. That's all I got to say on this topic for now. Rahul _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
