[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:12 -0400, 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.
> 

I won't say use 108 b/c:
1. 108 is not open source
2. 108 is not a fedora project at all
3. 108 requires YET ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

just my thoughts.

-sv