Re: Creating a "Fedora Incubator" brand
On 28 April 2016 at 19:36, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 04/28/2016 05:20 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 12:45 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>>> 2) I like the idea, but an example project might help illustrate here.
>>
>> Agreed, though I have some of my own ideas.
>>
>>> 3) What are the criteria for "graduating"? Who are the mentors in
this
>>> example? (Mentors are a key part of the incubator for Apache.)
>>
>> Do projects have to graduate? I don't want this to be viewed as a
>> competition between initiatives, and promotion/relegaion/graduation
>> seem to set a competitive tone. As soon as you start talking about
>> graduation or promotion, you start getting into resource allocation
>> issues, etc.
>>
>> I'd personally be fine if a project joined the incubator and stayed
>> there. If they wanted to somehow because an Objective, we already
>> have paths for that.
>
> I can think of at least one Atomic effort (the OSTree continuous
> integration) which might stay in Incubator permanently.
>
> Given that, are you sure you want to call it "Incubator"? That name
> does imply maturation at some point, even without the Apache precendent.
>
> What about "Fedora Innovator" or "Fedora Labs"?
>
>
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