[Fedora-spins] Robotics Spin

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:26:24 -0500,
  Tim Niemueller <tim at niemueller.de> wrote:
> 
> We want to publish the ISO. One thing we want is to be able to give
> this disc to students (or point them to the download), so that they
> can get started quickly with robotics. So we really want this to be
> readily usable, and therefore as an ISO.

Well there is a difference between having Fedora publish the ISO, especially
a large one, and having your SIG do it. The downside of Fedora doing it,
is more work for release engineering and getting stuff out to the mirrors
on release day, and that image is frozen throughout the release. If your
group does it, you can do occasional respins to get updated version of
packages. (There can be tricky parts to that as sometimes updates can break
anaconda or livecd-creator outpuit.)

> >Spins SIG is a bit up in the air right now. There is supposed to be a
> >discussion about the future of spins at Fudcon Tempe. If any of your group
> >is there, look to participate in that discussion.
> 
> What does that mean? Unfortunately I will be back in Germany by that
> time. Is there a way to get travel funding? I'd like to join and
> help where I can.

Effectively the overseeing group that was supposed to share work between all
of the groups doing spins has become dysfunctional. Essentially each particular
spin SIG is off doing their own stuff. There is also a higher level concern
about how spins are being promoted and whether or not that helps or hinders
Fedora. Note the latter is about how spins are promoted on the Fedora web
sites, not whether or not people can make their own spins.

The plan is for some people to talk about this at the upcoming Fudcon in
Tempe. I won't be there, but will participate remotely if the discussion is
done in a way that allows it.

In the meantime, Spins SIG is being run in maintenance mode.