Announcements regarding Remixes, etc. on the announce-list

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 18:15:52 UTC 2010


 On 09/07/2010 09:30 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Paul W. Frields (stickster at gmail.com) said: 
>> The questions I'd personally ask before approving an announcement that
>> is not purely Fedora related would include, "Does this announcement
>> concern exclusively free and open source software?".
> Also, historically there have been announcements for things like the
> Omega respin (includes certain things that Fedora can't ship, even
> though they're open-source), or add-on repos such as RPMFusion or ATrpms.
> You could make the argument that those aren't necessarily 'free'
> everywhere. (Personally, I think they're OK to announce.)

FWIW, I didn't announce the last release because I thought, it was
becoming too crowded a space to send out regular announcements.  If
there is a documented policy, that would certainly be helpful.

Rahul


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