Hi
I have also
included the information that Fedora Legacy is now a official Fedora
Project supported by the Fedora Foundation.
Good. I have a question. No one has said anything about the process of
signing up with the Fedora Project. I just discovered that process last
night on IRC, at the suggestion of <nman64> (Patrick Barnes) that in order
to officially be a contributor to the Fedora Project, and to gain
necessary privileges to help me carry out the work for the Fedora project
(in my case, Bugzilla privileges), I needed to apply at
<https://admin.fedora.redhat.com/accounts/>
get a Fedora Contributor account and (electronically) sign a Contributor
License Agreement (CLA), among other things.
Is this something that everyone who contributes to Fedora Legacy will be
required to do, especially now that Fedora Legacy is officially part of
the Fedora Foundation? If so, does that need to be documented in the
Fedora Legacy Wiki?
I am not sure about this but this probably is required. Jesse Keating
can confirm this for you.
I, for one, feel a bit relieved at being given the opportunity to sign a
Contributor License Agreement -- because I have been a little bit
concerned for awhile just who might be considered liable if someone used a
Legacy package, felt the package damaged their machine or their business
and decided to sue. The CLA (a copy of which is attached) makes it clear
that I as a contributor am releasing the work that I do with NO WARRANTEE
WHATSOEVER, and that this is my understanding -- that I am not offering
any kind of guarantee that my work will work in all circumstances or won't
cause hair to grow on some server's CPU.
(For those who are wondering, docs about signing on to the Fedora Account
System are at:
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem>.)
Yes this is one of the intended benefits. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/ for other details. Red Hat counsel
based this process on other well established community projects such as
Apache with a few improvements thrown in line with the Free and open
source methodology. If you have any questions on the CLA itself and if
it is required for the legacy project (which is very likely), let me know.
I have clarified some
terminology in the pages. As an example of these, Fedora Project in
general has avoiding using the term "support" in any our webpages or
documentation to avoid the confusion with commercial support services
and SLA's.
I am assuming then that the Fedora Foundation then officially leaves
commercial support services and SLA's (Service Level Agreements?) to
Red Hat, right?
Fedora Foundation does not mention anything about that. It has no say or
control over who provides support services for Fedora as far as I know.
The foundation is a overall management and delegation authority. It can
bless, reject existing or proposed Fedora Projects or choose to shutdown
stale projects or entities within Fedora as a extreme measure. It does
not micro manage any of the sub projects including legacy beyond that
level. Fedora as a open source project does not discriminate against any
field of endeavor with OSI definition
(http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php). Anybody could do commercial
support including Red Hat if and when deemed necessary. Naturally Red
Hat believes that those who would want a certified commercial product
would choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux instead which shares a code base
with Fedora thereby providing it the ability to continue funding the
Fedora Project in money and in kind resources (Engineers, services etc)
and provide Fedora for Free( in both sense of the word) with rapid
changes released in a rough time based public schedule.
Information on the security
procedures from the legacy site has also been copied over into the wiki
in anticipation of the depreciation of http://fedoralegacy.org in favor
of adding information to the primary Fedora Project website at
http://fedoraproject.org. Comments and feedback is most welcome.
Rahul, you removed text mentioning what distributions of RHL and Fedora
Core that Legacy supports off of the main page at
<http://fedoralegacy.org/wiki/Legacy>. It seems to me it would be good to
let that remain there, even if that is a question answered in our FAQ.
I did not want us to update two places in the wiki when a new Fedora
release gets added/removed from legacy. I have included this
information as the very first question in the FAQ. The first FAQ has
now be imported into a section within the main legacy page automatically
using a regex macro. This can be slightly fragile. So if you are editing
the relevant pages make sure you do not break this. I will keep an eye
too.
If I think of other comments, will write more. Thanks again, Rahul. And
thanks for posting to us that you did so, and for joining our list!
You are welcome.
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Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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