Automating hosted projects?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:43:47PM -0600, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 09:22:03PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 17:13 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > Hi Infrastructure team,
> > > 
> > > Not sure if this inquiry belongs here or on websites, but I'll start
> > > here.  Personally my experience has been that the Fedora admins act on
> > > requests for Fedora Hosted projects requests very quickly.  Some
> > > potential contributors may want or need more instantaneous results,
> > > and I would hate to see folks going to somewhere like Google Code if
> > > we can keep their projects more open and transparent (and portable) to
> > > the community.
> > > 
> > > Does the team have any sense as to whether we could further
> > > automate the Fedora Hosted project creation process?
> > 
> > imo -1. Part of the benefit of the process being manual is that a little
> > sanity checking is applied.
> > 
> > if someone needs hosting RIGHT NOW, then they can use their fedorapeople
> > account for the hour or two it'll take for someone from fedora
> > infrastructure to get to it.
> > 
> > Making it instantaneous and automatic just makes it prone to abuse.
> > 
> I agree with this statement -- I'd rather have people manually checking
> requests as they come rather than manually checking each automated
> request and possibly going through a revocation process if any abuse
> were to arise.

Does the Fedora Hosted FAQ or instruction sheet have a link to the
location on the wiki describing how people can get by with fpeeps.o
until their Hosted project appears?

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