On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:50:57AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 10:04 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > > We should also probably consider debranding Fedora hosted so it isn't > > as distasteful to people looking for a sourceforge alternative. > > I didn't think we're in the business of being a sourceforge alternative > nor do I think we want to be or have the resources to do that. When Mike McGrath opened up Fedora Hosted, I think he specifically made that point -- but ISTR it was more in the context of, "we don't want to end up hosting a bunch of dead code." Sourceforge, AFAIK, allows a project to live on indefinitely, whereas we thresh through our hosted projects and, with prior notification to the maintainers, release projects that are dead or unmaintained: https://fedorahosted.org/web/terms -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
