Mike McGrath wrote:
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
Here's the current process. We're still working out the process but
nothing has been approved yet (we just got this page up there
yesterday afternoon)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CustomSpins
Snip
Ok so let's take it step by step from the normal user...
What can I say dude, it takes commitment. If someone wants to spend 5
minutes to build an image and hand it off to us... we're not interested.
So an image that is created in hour(s) day(s) weeks is an image that
is better than an image that is created in 5 minutes..
So as long as I created the image in an time line the suits you guys
that are interested. ( just hope that evolution will come to an halt and
so I images that I would respin can meet their timeline )
Since the user is restricted to "Fedora ways" and the outcome can
always be calculated you can take md5 some or some other thing of
each package(s) + that with another package(s) store all the
possible variation in a database, create a spins, Create a spin dump
directory on the web server. let the user have an FC account which
they have to authenticate against and
after log in aka in their fedora account, there would be an option to
upload an spin.
When they are gonna upload a spin, they are asked to put an
description of the spin(s) and the sum of the spin packages which is
then match to the all possible sums in the database and voila.
Release engingeers can focus on their work, users dont have go
through "reviews" to be approved.. everybody is happy or as they can
be ( except of no media support in their spins )..
Think more then 1 user people how where you gonna handle 10000 of
spins,
or this being develop of not being used and popular...
***sight***
You've forgotten to take in to consideration brand dilution. I can't
imagine a scenario where Fedora is officially hosting 10,000 spins for
a single release. It's not the way I envision it (Not that what I say
is the way it is, feel free to take a 10,000 spin proposal to the FAB
but I think you'll find its not practical). Getting a spin hosted by
Fedora should be a process that takes Fedora's image into account
which is why there is a Trademark check by the board. If they decide
that the spin is bad for Fedora's image or they have decided we've
gotten spin crazy they'll put a stop to it. The re-spins are supposed
to be quality, compelling spins. Not some silly crap that
$RANDOM_STUDENT made for a class that he'll forget all about after the
class is done.
The uploaded images would be deleted after user account as been inactive
for a while or on 2 months after a new Fedora release
The way I see it is that SIG's in Fedora can create their own spin if
they feel its needed. I doubt there will be too many "look what _I_
did" spins at spins.fedoraproject.org if any. I'd think it should be
"look at what _we_ did". Being in the Infrastructure group we see a
lot of "Wouldn't it be cool if? Here, now you host and maintain it."
Which just doesn't scale / work and is very annoying.
This is especially true since people, dedicated people, could create
their own spin and host it themselves.
-Mike
For the record if people haven't noticed it yet playing by those Fedora
restricted/bounded rules will never
become interesting...
Know variable == Known result == Boring..
With this limited thinking this project is doomed to fail....
Best regards
Johann B.
"Put the clay in the hand of the individual and see what he creates
without boundary's
it's then when the outcome becomes interesting "
--
Johann B. Gudmundsson. RHCE,CCSA
Unix System Engineer.
IT Management.
Reiknistofnun University of Iceland.
Taeknigardi, Dunhaga 5. Email: johannbg@xxxxx
IS-107 Reykjavik. Phone: +354-525-4267
Iceland. Fax: +354-552-8801
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