On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:22:03PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:13 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Hi Infrastructure team, > > > > Not sure if this inquiry belongs here or on websites, but I'll start > > here. Personally my experience has been that the Fedora admins act on > > requests for Fedora Hosted projects requests very quickly. Some > > potential contributors may want or need more instantaneous results, > > and I would hate to see folks going to somewhere like Google Code if > > we can keep their projects more open and transparent (and portable) to > > the community. > > > > Does the team have any sense as to whether we could further > > automate the Fedora Hosted project creation process? > > imo -1. Part of the benefit of the process being manual is that a little > sanity checking is applied. > > if someone needs hosting RIGHT NOW, then they can use their fedorapeople > account for the hour or two it'll take for someone from fedora > infrastructure to get to it. > > Making it instantaneous and automatic just makes it prone to abuse. > I agree with this statement -- I'd rather have people manually checking requests as they come rather than manually checking each automated request and possibly going through a revocation process if any abuse were to arise. -- 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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