On 04/29/2016 03:47 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 04/28/2016 11:02 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> >>> I think we might benefit from having an official branding for >>> initiatives somewhere in between — work done *in* the project, but not >>> necessarily yet accepted into our "mainline". This would encourage >>> innovation _within_ Fedora without causing confusion over whether >>> something is "official". >> >> 1) would this create confusion with something like the Apache Incubator, >> which is well-defined but not well-understood outside Apache circles? >> >> 2) I like the idea, but an example project might help illustrate here. >> >> 3) What are the criteria for "graduating"? > > This is a very good question, same as I asked when we were talking > about labs projects some time ago. It doesn't make any sense to try to > work on "labs"/"incubator" project if there's no way how to graduate > to official product/project/flavor/whatever you call it. Currently we > have strict set of the only official flavors and it's impossible to > graduate to one even you have everything the other have, even more, we > tried in KDE SIG :). Or vice versa - downgrade to incubator... > At the risk of derailing this thread, KDE SIG was told that the criteria for a new top-level Edition in Fedora was that it had to serve a new "market segment". Plasma Edition had almost a 100% overlap with the Workstation Edition and would have therefore been in direct competition. If instead you built a new product *atop* Plasma, it could still be promoted. (Off-the-cuff examples: a Fedora Home Automation Suite, Fedora TV Set-Top Box or Fedora Cellphone using Plasma as the operating environment).
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