directions in Fedora desktop project

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>> Thilo Pfennig wrote:
>>> Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
>>>> No. Its not. Everyone was open to join the fedora summit channel and
>>>> send feedback. Fedora devel list is also open to everyone.
>>> But the wiki is not. And as summit is over no irc contributions. I know
>>> that I may post emails to most fedora lists, but thats not much. I can
>>> also do this on every open mailing lists for any proprietary software.
>> Summit had a IRC channel. #fedora-summit as I have already pointed out
>> in a previous message. What more do you need?
> Direct access to the wiki with different license and without the need to
> sign a CLA. So my options really are:
> 
>  * Build a community version of Fedora or
>  * Just leave the project.

We are very unlikely to drop the CLA. It is a well recognized process 
that is used by several community projects with clear benefits. A quick 
sample:

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050325novalis.html
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/assigning.html
http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#jca1
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement/

Rahul