fedora 7 schedule (was Re: Fedora 7 planing)

[Luis Villa]

On 12/13/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 07:43 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > >  > Since it is specifically external legal liability that prevents (2),
> > >  > that suggests being as proactive as possible about all *legal* issues
> > >  > in order to avoid delays. Understanding that perfect foresight is
> > >  > impossible, who is in charge of assessing legal issues and being the
> > >  > best humanly possible lookout for legal icebergs? What are they doing
> > >  > right now to help meet this proposed schedule?
> > >
> > > Red Hat legal is pretty much the gatekeeper for such issues.
> >
> > Gatekeepers are by definition stationary and deal with problems that
> > come to them :) Who from Fedora is responsible for pushing RH legal to
> > work proactively on this kind of thing, or alternately, responsible
> > for finding such problems and bringing them to RH legal ASAP?
>
> We're actually very proactive here.  A lot of it filters down to points
> like checking at package review and ongoing bits from individual package
> maintainers[1].  In this specific case, it wasn't something that could
> have been discovered sooner.  There's not really anything that could
> have made it apparent sooner that I can see.

Okeydokey. Great to hear.

Luis