[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 20 October 2006 10:02, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> So people have been asking more and more for general VCS space,
>> sometimes SVN, GIT, CVS.  My question for the board:  Is the Fedora
>> Project a place to host this stuff or should we just point them to
>> freshmeat and sourceforge?  Here's an example thats comes up:
>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&Tic
>> ketID=102
>>
>> and another
>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/customer.pl?Action=CustomerTicketZo
>> om&TicketID=94
>>
>> At present there is no formal policy (that I am aware of).
> 
> So some will say use 108, but others will say that 108 doesn't support the SCM 
> of their choice.  There are some projects, things that are written 
> specifically for Fedora and Fedora based distributions (like RHEL) that may 
> want to develop out in the public space, with the SCM of their choice.  
> Sending those people to sourceforge is not a very good solution, as I 
> wouldn't wish sourceforge on anybody's project.  I suppose if we want the 
> Fedora project to foster software development, and become that 'open source 
> lab' that I keep hearing about, we probably should try to provide some 
> infrastructure for these projects.  However it is a pretty big undertaking to 
> try and provide something complete, repo, mailing list, webspace, bug 
> tracking system, etc..  in such a way that we can easily add and segregate 
> projects.
> 
> Tough question :/
> 
> 
> 

I don't think it's as tough as that.  For example, we should really have 
a git repo that fedora developers (including red hat folks!) can use. 
If nothing else, being able to interact with the kernel, x.org and a 
host of other projects is enough reason alone to just host that one thing.

And I think that we don't have to worry about the whole big picture 
here.  We're not trying to compete with sourceforge, nor should we try. 
  But we should be facilitating individuals to get shit done.  And a 
variety of SCMs do just that.

If someone comes along and says "hey, I want to make LiveCDs actually 
happen!  And here's code to do it!"  we shouldn't say "why aren't you 
using hg!?"  Because then they go away and it is sad face making.  To me 
that's the little stuff and we shouldn't be using it to keep people 
away.  I think we've done too much of that crap in the past.

--Chris