On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:49 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 2008/7/24 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > * He didn't seem to be interested in Moblin as a feature of Fedora, per > > se. He's happy to work as a downstream entirely. > > I wasn't thinking Fedora 'feature' I was thinking more along the lines > of how OLPC is interacting with us..sort of...without making use of > the Fedora brand directly. Right, but the obvious difference is that Intel's resources dwarf ours -- and that's a *major* difference. > My concern is primary about doing what is best to build contributor > interest in the space that Moblin is attacking. I'm not sure they are > going to get a community involvement boost acting as a complete > separate downstream to our..kernel. I think they will only get a real > boost if they align their internal project processes with the process > of either OpenSuse or Fedora to more easily access one or the other > existing contributor pools. And I think we can do that without > forcing them to use the Fedora brand. We are sort of doing this with > OLPC right now, aren't we? I hate to see them bouncing back and forth > trying to be the downstream of different projects in succession, > looking for the magic ticket that unlocks new contributor interest. Downstream should be free to choose what they like from upstream to build their own toys. That's the promise of FOSS. What will unlock contributor interest is their vision of Moblin -- which we can't give them. I worry that this thread sounds a little too much like requiring downstream to have a relationship with us. That sounds a bit unrealistic to me. I'm not sure what "aligning internal project processes... to more easily access one or the other existing contributor pools" means. But if you believe it's a worthy goal, this is something you can (and probably should) discuss directly in the Moblin project. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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