Proposal: Repository Community Collaboration Statement

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tim Jackson wrote:
> I have a feeling I might regret this, but if nobody tries....
> 
> I have written up below a proposed simple statement of collaboration 
> which ideally a number of interested parties in different repositories 
> (EPEL, Fedora, RPMforge, AT etc.) could sign up to.
> 
> At this stage I'm interested mostly in whether people like the broad 
> principle, rather than picking apart specific wording as I'd rather this 
> didn't descend into a discussion about semantics or politics. Basically: 
>  is this something that people feel could form the basis of something 
> they'd be willing to sign up to? Or should we all just go back to 
> arguing about repotags?

I have made some changes essentially converting this from a statement 
that individual contributors would have to sign to a project wide policy

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration

If folks are happy with it I will help drive this through FESCo and 
Fedora Project board after getting some feedback. Any further comments?

Rahul