On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ian Weller wrote: > 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. > Let me know when you get archives.fedorahosted.org up, I'll make sure to send all this unused code your way ;-) We're not trying to be the end all hosting for everyone. If that turns people away, there are plenty of alternatives. We're looking for people who have active and interesting projects. -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
