[fab] Fedora Project and Hosting

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 20 October 2006 12:59, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Existing trusted users (who are quite numerous and membership expands at
>> a good rate) would have free reign without bureaucratic overhead to
>> create projects and repositories.  They could grant commit access to
>> others, and be responsible for content in repositories that they own.
>>
>> I see this as a good balance that both allows flexibility of developers
>> to do what they want, with an effective amount of risk mitigation.
> 
> Absolutely.  I don't discount that at all.  (although we can't allow them to 
> call it a 'Fedora' project until it goes through the approval method for 
> that...)

Maybe Launchpad was smart in naming itself something separate from 
Ubuntu.  Ubuntu projects (among others) just happen to be hosted there. 
  We could do something similar to this.

> 
> However I just want to make aware that for an outside person who wants to 
> start a project for Fedora may have to jump through the hoops of becoming 
> a 'trusted user'.
> 

We need to create more formally defined paths to become a 'trusted user'.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com