Re: Infinite Freedom???

[Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip kanarip com>]

Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:58 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> 
>> And if you submit this version for board approval as an "official" Fedora 
>> release, I'm pretty sure you'd get it.
> 
> Who should actually approve different spins as being "Formally Fedora"?
> 
> /me likes the audio pun in that title, and it is more accurate than the
> abused word 'official'
> 
> I'll be honest -- I don't mind that there be a Board rubber stamp
> [Formally Fedora Spin], but it needs to be just that -- a rubber stamp
> approval on top of a recommendation from a group of people who can
> actually vet the individual distro.
> 
> Perhaps I see a flood of such requests.  Perhaps I personally fear the
> work of figuring out how to automate the testing of such requests.
> 
> Based on the new understanding of the Board's role, shouldn't it be the
> Board says, "Fedora needs to formally recognize new community-sourced
> spins that are within Fedora guidelines," and FESCo makes it so?
> Presumably by firing up a SIG, modifying some build sys magic, and so
> forth.
> 
> - Karsten
> 

This is not a bad idea at all. I'd gladly volunteer for such a SIG.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip