Live Fedora start page proposal

[Mike McGrath]

Donald Fischer wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
>   
>> also your links to fedora are wrong  they should be fedoraproject.org  not
>> fedora.redhat.com   minor detail  but fedora.redhat.com is dead.
>>     
>
> Whoops, easy enough to fix.
>
>   
>> Any Fedora Infrastructure type thing (which this is)  has a few rules.  It
>> needs to be completely open.  i.e  somebody else needs to be able to deploy
>> it themselves using whats provided in Fedora.  (* We allow exceptions at
>> times for things in review)   all components need to be free and open source.
>> We Just got the whole OS on a free and open platform.  We can not change this
>> now.   So your JSP stuff had better work with gcj.    the servers need to be
>> under the control of fedora Infrastructure.  This would be a critical thing
>> that needs to be open.
>>     
>
> I don't forsee any problem having 100% FOSS dependencies.  We can make
> sure the results page works with gcj or worst case write it in another
> language.  It's pretty trivial code wise.
>   

FWIW, if it could be written in python it would align well with the rest 
of our applications.

    -Mike