On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Ian Weller wrote:
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:35:41PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> This is one of the things we're hoping to prevent with fedorahosted. The
> hope is that the fedorahosted brand will be known for good, active
> projects. Not vaporware.
>
> We'll certainly be contacting the project members and let them
> know whats up giving them the option to grab the raw source tree (already
> available via rsync) and the trac install.
>
> In general from the infrastructure side I'd say we want to keep the
> barrier to enter low but the quality high. Certainly there's projects
> that don't need to be updated every 6 months but we can identify those and
> deal accordingly.
>
None of this seems to agree with the open source philosophy. From what I
understand, one should always be able to access code, whether dead,
buggy, or release candidate, or whatever. I understand the idea of
keeping a code center clean and newish, but I think it would turn away
more projects than dead codebases would.
Let me know when you get
archives.fedorahosted.org up, I'll make sure to
send all this unused code your way ;-)
We're not trying to be the end all hosting for everyone. If that turns
people away, there are plenty of alternatives. We're looking for people
who have active and interesting projects.
-Mike