Request: please consider clarifying the project's position on Spins

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2010, 16:38 -0700 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 16:18, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2010, 14:54 -0800 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Release_Engineering_SOPs
> >
> > At least we do know what they do but not how decisions are made and -
> > most important - how to join. Every other group in Fedora has
> > instructions on joining them in the wiki.
> 
> I am not sure its a group that people can just 'join' but on they have
> to work into. It is not fair, nice or clean but I don't see the
> equivalent groups in Debian (FTP Masters sort of fits here) or
> OpenSUSE just allowing anyone joining [Hey look I got signing keys
> just by clicking JOIN NOW.. lets go resign bsd-games with root privs
> as a joke and see how long it takes for anyone to notice.]

There is no such group in Fedora that you can just join by clicking.
Packagers need to sponsored, ambassadors need to go through a strict
mentoring and so on. Whatever you do, you have to enjoy the group's
trust first and this is not going to change.

Regards,
Christoph