On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > Maybe I'm just jaded that fedorahosted is too 'distro specific'. I > didn't want it to be, but I guess that's what you get when "fedora" is > attached to the name. (having to sign the Fedora CLA to get an account > doesn't help much either...) It doesn't have to be. I prodded Karsten Hopp to move the hwdata package upstream to fedorahosted, initially to get it out of Red Hat internal CVS. It turns out, this package is used directly by Debian and Ubuntu (several times), as well as Fedora and RHEL. The Ubuntu developers I've spoken with have been happy with this arrangement, and I've been happy for them to point me at LaunchPad-filed bugs with regard to this package which I could easily fix and commit. Whether or not the maintainers in Ubuntu and Debian have requested Fedora accounts and signed the CLA, I don't know. But they're benefitting from it being available, just as Fedora is. I expect the same is true of additional packages too. In a similar vein, John Lockhart is using his fedorapeople space to manage the paper submissions for OLS. This means everyone who is writing a paper for OLS either a) creates a FAS account (preferred), or b) mails tarballs to John (less preferred). That's a cool use of the infrastructure that I would never have thought of before, and it has the potential to bring more people into the Fedora family. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list