New Project: HOWTO Freely Obtain Our Source

[Eric Christensen]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 20:06, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:57:51PM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:48 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:32:10PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> > > Now, as far as Fedora producing something that is not an RPM, I
>> > > would like to see an example of that. Some things are generated "on
>> > > the fly" by the scripts included in the RPM, but there is nothing
>> > > stopping you from looking at the scripts - even is a binary RPM.
>> >
>> > I think Eric was referring to our many hosted projects,
>> > infrastructure, websites, artwork, and so forth, where source is
>> > stored in some sort of source code control, but RPM packages are
>> > indeed not produced or published.
>>
>> Yep, that's a large part of our missing openness.
>
> I have an idea -- let's use "comprehensibility" instead of "openness"
> here, lest we cause some consternation about what's open and what's
> not.  Everything we produce in Fedora is open, transparent, and
> attainable by anyone.  Whether the route to do that makes sense to
> people new to the project, is quite another matter, one which we hope
> to rectify.
>
> --
> Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/

Yeah... I'm having vocabulary problems this week.

Eric