[fab] Proposed Project: Fedora Testing

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 02:35:52 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 00:58 -0500, Patrick W. Barnes wrote: 
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:26, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Sorry guys, catching up on mail, but I did have one comment here:
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > > 4. What does it mean to be a formal Fedora Project project, beyond the
> > > > name?  That is, is someone restricted from using the Wiki for the
> > > > project until then?  How about CVS?  Plone?
> > >
> > > This is one of the recurring questions in my mind.  And I don't have an
> > > obvious answer to it.
> >
> > Yeah, I don't think the answer *is* obvious, but I think the answer is
> > important.
> >
> > To me, the answer is *an identified leadership structure that makes
> > things happen*.  My take: any Fedora undertaking that is mature enough to
> > (a) develop a critical mass of people who *do* something instead of
> > talking about something, and (b) easily integrate other people who want to
> > help by handing them useful actions to perform... is mature enough to be
> > called a Fedora project.
> >
> > Really, it's a project when the *participants* decide it's a project...
> > not when *we* decide it's a project.  The board should be encouraging
> > those "incubator projects" to *take action*, and should reward those that
> > *do* take action by giving them "official project status".
> >
> 
> The draft page I put together the last time this topic came up is on the wiki:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects

I've been looking at this page to try and winnow it down to make it seem
a little less daunting, per Max's request.  It's written very well, but
there seems to be a tidal surge toward a kinder, gentler way in to the
greater Fedora Project.  We have some conflicting needs:

1.  Lower barriers to entry vs. protection of Fedora name and trademarks
2.  Support for initiative vs. discouragement of community
over-fragmentation

I'm monitoring any comments to see how I can fit them into this page.

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