[fab] project hosting?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 20 13:46:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:52 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > Its a nice offer but we are not going to rely on proprietary
> > infrastructure for Fedora regardless of the cost factor.  
> 
> I don't think it wise for the board to discount sf's offer out-of-hand
> without at least exploring the true viability of open-source
> alternatives.  Now, how much time/effort/resources will be involved in
> implementing our own project hosting (using savanna or whatever)?  I
> don't think we should decide for or against *any* solution until this
> question is answered.

> If it comes down to either using sourceforge or nothing (for the
> foreseeable future, because of limited resources), well, I think doing
> nothing would be just plain silly.

In Fedora, if the choice is between proprietary infrastructure and
nothing, we can very well choose nothing. There is nothing silly about
sticking to the ideals of the project.

Rahul




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