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.
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