council trademark approval in the change policy

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 19:03:49 UTC 2015



On 05/13/2015 02:55 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> As part of a FESCo and Spins SIG decision to reform the new spins
> process, I added a section on trademark approval to:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy
>
> It now says:
>
>    If your Change may require trademark approval (for example, if it is
>    a new Spin), file a ticket requesting trademark approval from the
>    Fedora Council. This approval will be done via the Council's
>    consensus-based process; if the request receives at least three
>    positive votes and no negative votes within 14 days, it is considered
>    approved.
>
> 14 days is rather long, but I figure since we're aiming for
> ticket-based meetings every two weeks, that'll provide at least one
> meeting where we can make sure it doesn't get missed and discuss if
> necessary. Thoughts on this?

You might want to give yourself a few more fudge days. Just thinking if 
one meeting gets cancelled (eg Xmas holidays) you might have an 
ambiguous situation. Or maybe just reword that the approval will be 
considered within 1-2 council meetings (typically taking no more than 14 
days)

~m


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