Proposal: Repository Community Collaboration Statement

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 14 14:38:11 UTC 2007


Tim Jackson wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> I have made some changes essentially converting this from a statement 
>> that individual contributors would have to sign to a project wide policy
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/RepositoryCollaboration
>>
>> If folks are happy with it I will help drive this through FESCo and 
>> Fedora Project board after getting some feedback. Any further comments?
> 
> I'm a bit concerned that you've undermined one of the base principles of 
> my proposal Rahul. I put a lot of thought into *specifically* wording it 
> so that it could be "signed" by any project. You've now turned it round 
> and made it Fedora centric, so it doesn't make sense for another repo to 
> sign. I can't see the sense in that. (It doesn't make sense for Dag, for 
> example, to sign a statement saying "Fedora Project agrees to XXX"). 

If it involved a Fedora effort and if is the Fedora wiki it is already 
very Fedora centric. If you read the proposal it only requires a ack 
from third party repository maintainers that this is what they desire.

If you want to go back to the older proposal you can revert the wiki.

Rahul




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