Fedora Board Recap 2007-AUG-21

[Christopher Aillon]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Karsten Wade wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 01:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Max was supposed to discuss with legal on codec buddy. Did that happen?
>>
>> What was reported in the minutes ... is what was reported.  I'm sure if
>> there is something to discuss, we'll hear about it.
> 
> Lack of communication in this is causing us to lose this feature for the 
> second release after it has originally been planned. In the last board 
> meeting, the plan was to get legal involved. We are hitting feature 
> freeze within a week. My mails offlist have went unanswered. I would 
> appreciate an update. Thanks.

Feature Freeze is mostly concerned with the engineering in packages in 
Fedora.  From what I understand, the engineering work is essentially 
done.  Totem supports fetching missing plugins, and CodecBuddy is built 
into rawhide already under the name codeina.

Once we are satisfied that everything is clear legally (I don't know 
status on this), we can just make the needed adjustments on the website. 
  We can do this after feature freeze.  Sadly, we won't get as much 
testing on it if the legal bits aren't cleared up soon.  But 
fortunately, this either works or it doesn't.

I do not believe this feature is in jeopardy of being dropped due to the 
impending freeze, however.  If I'm mistaken and the legal/website work 
also must be also done by Feature Freeze, then I believe exceptions can 
be requested, and if I had to vote, I would vote for an exception here.