[fab] New project formation is out of control

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Monday 05 June 2006 19:24, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Also, note that with the announcement of the "Red Hat Open Testing
> > Project to get a name in the future" that there's some desire to see
> > under the Fedora umbrella, there is some thought going into what's going
> > to be needed for a "new project".  I expect that to not be a short
> > process to figure out or get through, though.
>
> This came up at the Fedora BoF.  What we need to do, quite simply, is
> clarify (and then adhere to) two sets of guidelines:
>
> 1.  Official Fedora Projects behave as such.....
>  	- clear leadership
>  	- email list, irc, cvs (if needed)
>  	- home on the wiki
>  	- scheduled meetings, public minutes/summaries
>  	- public roadmap
>  	- accountable to Fedora Board for leadership and progress
>  	- etc.
>
> 2.  Fedora Incubator Projects behave as such.....
>  	- email list
>  	- wiki page
>  	- seeing critical mass of participation and progress
>  	- guidance from the rest of Fedora
>  	- etc.
>
> These guidelines have come together organically -- most of us can probably
> enumerate many of the requirements of each, as I have tried to do above.
>
> Someone (it could be me, but I'd like to see someone else who has more
> cycles and time to devote directly to it) needs to write a draft, and then
> we can review it on this list and publicize it.
>
> Any volunteers?  No reason we can't get this done by the end of the week,
> if someone can step up and own it.
>
> w.r.t the interviews -- I say let him run them, and it's on *us* to figure
> out what part of the Fedora umbrella those should be under.
>

I've started a new wiki page for this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects

...and the flood gates have been opened.  ;-)

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