[Fedora-spins] cleanup of spins process

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday, May 07, 2015 09:46:48 AM Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Actually, on review, there is an existing policy
> > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_approval_policy>, which
> > states that specific trademark approvals can be delegated to various
> > SIGs. In this case, that "SIG" would be FESCo; I'll look at updating
> 
> Oh, no, wait, that policy also includes a "submit to Council" step. I
> guess the idea is to reduce Council (formerly Board) involvement to
> oversight and approval of something already vetted?
> 
> *digs into thread linked at the bottom of that message*
> 
> Yeah, okay, to quote David Nalley, the intent is "it gets the board
> out of the 'QA/Design/Rel-eng/Spins' business", and that seems relevant
> reasonable today is well. And I guess I don't see a huge reason to not
> just keep the stamp-of-approval-from-the-council step. I don't think
> there will be a big increased workload from thousands of new spins
> appearing.
> 
> A lot of the previous concern was over the private Board ticket system,
> and since we now have a _public_ ticket system, that shouldn't be a
> worry. The one thing I might suggest is that the Council (possibly
> through the Engineering Representative) probably should be notified
> when the FESCo process _begins_, so that if there are any concerns,
> they can be relayed back _before_ all of the rest of the work. (For
> example, if someone proposes a Fedora Kitten Murder Spin, the Council
> could indicate skepticism _before_ a lot of work is put into it, even
> if FESCo thinks the _technical_ details are perfectly fine.)

This could go into the Change policy, if the change is a spin, notify the 
council so they can raise any concerns over trademark usage and ack the 
trademark usage  or something to that effect.

Dennis
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