[fab] New project formation is out of control

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 8 19:04:13 UTC 2006


Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> >No one has said much about Patrick's wiki page:
> >
> >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects 
> >
> >I agreed to drive this project definition problem... My personal
> >viewpoint is that, like logo usage, we want to be generous but
> >protective about the Fedora name.  I prefer that the "Ideas" listed in
> >this page be promoted to "SIGs" since not only do we have a couple, but
> >"Ideas" sounds a little dismissive.  "SIG" gives the contributors an
> >immediate feeling of group ownership.  Once a SIG has more plans they
> >can be owned by an official subproject until they are ready to move on,
> >if that's necessary.  Input please?
> 
> (As I said somewhere else... (: ...) I agree with these sentiments to 
> keep things simple and stick with only SIG/Project labels.  Otherwise, 
> IMO, the only item in need of clarifying is who exactly does "Project" 
> announcements (ie, the Board or the parent Project).

Works for me. Which board member is going to lay down the law? Or do
we leave this for Max?

Bill




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