On 1/6/07, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think the Fedora project should be open to this kind of thing; I think we want to make it extremely easy to do "spins" including having some kind of hosting space provided by the Fedora Project for "blessed" spins.
I am just trying to recast the discussion, to show that the issue over spin branding isn't really a strict Desktop spin == Gnome spin versus KDE spin. The reality is Desktop spin == FrankeinFood spin.
Anyone should be able to easily start up a "spin" (even large corporations for internal deployments but I'm thinking more of Fedora Special Interest Group (SIG) like XFCE, E17, Music, Games, Eclipse etc.) and once it has proved itself perhaps it can be officially hosted by the Fedora Project.
We may get 'easily' from a toolset point of view. But I personally have significant concerns that community SIGS will be able to meet my reasonable expectations with regard to quality integration work. I will say that the work the FedoraUnity people have been doing with their livecds and re-spins assuages some of my deeper fears and should be looked to as a model on how people in the fedora community can self-organize to get things done.
The governance structure of who controls a spin needs to be thought about too including guidelines when for resolving conflicts when a package is needed by more than one spin and there is divergence on how the package should be packaged up.
Conflicts will always happen, people will have to be willing to work within a defined conflict resolution process and abide by the decisions. I expect the biggest pain associated with the merger, across a number of fronts, will be integrating the in-house culture surrounding how plans for Core are made, with the external culture that has been developing for the last 2 or 3 years. I hope there is a chance for internal and external leads to meet up at FudCon, over some pizza and beer and some high-spirited wii-sports competitions, and get to know each other beyond what they see in mailinglist conflicts. -jef"patiently waiting for FUDCon Fairbanks"spaleta -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
