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On 10/28/2010 04:39 PM, "Jóhann B. Guđmundsson" wrote:
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<pre>I'm not quite sure how wize it is for a person that uses or atleast used
[1] Fedora official channels to promote their own product over Fedora
itself should be included in the writing of best practises/guidelines or
having any saying in that matter in general unless of course the board
approves and thus in a sense promotes such activities.<br><br></pre>
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I don't know whether you are intentionally doing it but your tone appears to be condescending in many of these mails. I have been involved in
creating and maintaining many of the first Fedora Spins and Fedora Remixes and don't view them
as individual products but part of the broader Fedora community. I believe my experience in doing all this puts me in a better position to write such guidelines.
I would admit that I am biased since I did suggest the word "remix" in the first place when the new trademark guidelines were being drafted, but in the absence of any particular policy regarding what should be announced via the Fedora announce list and the long established practise of announcing third party repositories via the same mailing list, I don't see a problem. <br>
<br>It is a moderated mailing list and if the project has anything against such practises, document the policy and reject announcements that fall outside that. For what it is worth, the last release of my remix wasn't announced using that mailing list so I don't particular care about it anyway at this point. We as a community cannot have it both ways. Fedora Remix as a secondary brand (along with other efforts like generic-logos package) was established precisely to promote the possibility of remixes having seen the value in them. Unless there is evidence of actual problems in a mass scale, I would suggest just establishing best practise guidelines and leave it at that. Remixes are going to be created regardless of what you want to call them. All you can possibly do is change the guidelines to withdraw the use of "Fedora Remix" or put rigid guidelines around that which is going to have the same result. I doubt that is a useful exercise in any form. <br>
<br>Rahul <br><br><br>
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