[fab] project hosting?

[Rex Dieter]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> In Fedora, if the choice is between proprietary infrastructure and
> nothing, we can very well choose nothing. There is nothing silly about
> sticking to the ideals of the project.

The open-source "ideal" of the project, as far as I see it, applies only
to what is included-in/released-by Fedora (Core/Extras) (*).  I agree it
certainly is appealing to be able to apply this same ideal to the
project entirely (ie, including internal project infrastructure), but my
opinion is that in this case, the cost is just too high.

I had thought that it was a given that the fedora project absolutely
*needed* project hosting.  We have to weigh this need (and possibly not
satisfying it with an open-source solution) against the cost of
upholding your theoretical ideal.

Now don't get me wrong.  I'm not saying that we should use sourceforge.
 I'm saying that I think it is too early to say that we should not.

-- Rex

(*) After a quick scan of both fedora.redhat.com and fedoraproject.org,
I couldn't find any definition of Fedora's ideals/goals (I'm sure it's
there somewhere).  I'll be perfectly happy to shut up if a definitive
definition of Fedora and it's goals/ideals exists, that says these
ideals apply to Fedora infrastructure as well.