Hosting and Supporting GIT conversion of Fedora CVS to enable downstream development efforts and distributions

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:21 -0800, Manas Saksena wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I would like to request support for hosting git conversion of Fedora CVS
> as per Lennert's post to fedora-infrastructure-list. 
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-November/msg00136.html
> 
> While there were a few responses to the mail (both support and
> skepticism) there was no clear decision. 
> 
> The basic idea of this effort is to enable downstream development
> efforts that make use of the fedora package repository as their upstream
> source. 
> 
> The specific efforts that I am interested are: 
> 
> 1. Building small footprint systems (for embedded systems use).
> 2. Cross-building (a subset of) Fedora packages. 
> 3. Support for architectures and platforms that are not (yet) integrated
>    into the Fedora project.  
> 4. Building a GNOME Mobile distribution.
> 
> etc. Others may find it useful for other purposes. 
> 
> The git tree does not have to be hosted in the fedora infrastructure,
> but it seems like the natural place for it to be. It also sends the
> message that the Fedora project encourages downstream efforts that can
> leverage Fedora into areas that are not of direct/current interest for
> the project. 
> 
> So, in summary, I would appreciate if the Fedora board can consider this
> request and provide clear guidance on whether this activity can/should
> be supported through the fedora infrastructure. 

I'm not positive but this doesn't seem like a board decision. If the
releng, fesco and infrastructure teams are at an impasse we can take it
up for discussion but I don't see a reason to not let those groups do
what they're supposed to do.

-sv