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

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 02:41 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 06.12.2010, 18:16 -0600 schrieb Mike McGrath:
> > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am Samstag, den 04.12.2010, 22:37 -0500 schrieb Greg DeKoenigsberg:
> > > > >
> > > > > Spins folks: what steps would *you* be satisfied with?  Come with
> > > > > proposals.
> > > >
> > > > I think I already mentioned some things a couple of times in this
> > > > thread:
> > > >       * Allow the spins to define their own target audience.
> > > >       * Allow the spins to ship the software they need for their use
> > > >         case.
> > >
> > > Another way to word this is "Let all spins fork Fedora and then let them
> > > continue to use the Fedora name"
> >
> > Hi Mike
> >
> > why do you think it's forking?
>
> I think Mike was working on the assumption that you were asking for
> spins to be allowed to include any packages they like (including ones
> that don't meet Fedora's guidelines); I think that wasn't actually so
> clear and probably isn't what you meant, but it might be best to
> clarify: what exactly do you mean by 'allow the spins to ship the
> software they need for their use case', and in what way is this not
> currently the case?
>

I was also thinking he might want a different version of bash for every
spin.  That just seems like a fork to me.

	-Mike