On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:35:41PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > This is one of the things we're hoping to prevent with fedorahosted. The > hope is that the fedorahosted brand will be known for good, active > projects. Not vaporware. > > We'll certainly be contacting the project members and let them > know whats up giving them the option to grab the raw source tree (already > available via rsync) and the trac install. > > In general from the infrastructure side I'd say we want to keep the > barrier to enter low but the quality high. Certainly there's projects > that don't need to be updated every 6 months but we can identify those and > deal accordingly. > None of this seems to agree with the open source philosophy. From what I understand, one should always be able to access code, whether dead, buggy, or release candidate, or whatever. I understand the idea of keeping a code center clean and newish, but I think it would turn away more projects than dead codebases would. -- Ian Weller <ianweller@xxxxxxxxx> http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams
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