Fedora Games Spin : Requesting Board Approval

[Mike McGrath]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 14:01 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Sounds like a start to me. Would this result in a torrent only release?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Do I have to the approval of Fedora Board to call this "Fedora Games Spin"?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Given that no one from the board has weighed in on the discussion, I
>>> would say not yet.
>>>
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>>>       
>
> If we want to distribute the spins/deployment mechanism a bit and if we
> want to make a distinction b/t respins and the official fedora spins
> then maybe we could do:
>
> spins.fedoraproject.org - it's own torrent tracker with an arse-load of
> disk space.
>
> Then we have a respin-admin group which can login to this machine and:
>   1. make a spin with livecd/pungi based on a submitted config
>   2. push them up to the spins tracker
>
> Then we delegate the responsibility some and we also don't end up
> drowning the official releases in other stuff.
>
> in short new user experience is:
>
> Looking for fedora: main site-> torrent.fedoraproject.org
>
> Slightly more experienced new user:
>  Looking for a specific fedora spin (once they understand what a spin
> is) -> spins.fedoraproject.org
>   

Nope, very reasonable and fits in with a lot of the other stuff we're 
doing where we have the Official Fedora thing and then even more 
community/Sig thing like we're doing with secondary arch for example.  
+1 from me.

    -Mike