[fab] New project formation is out of control

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:52 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:38 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > 
> > > Here's the simplest possible guidelines I can imagine -- and the simplest 
> > > possible guidelines are almost always the best.  :)
> > > 
> > > 1. Community members are allowed to create Fedora SIGs.  Create them, 
> > > announce them, rally support around them.  Do whatever you like.
> > > 
> > > 2. Fedora Projects may *only* be announced by the Fedora Board.
> > > 
> > > 3. State this policy on fedora-announce-list, and make it prominent on the 
> > > wiki.
> > > 
> > > 4. Anyone who violates this simple policy will be corrected as quickly as 
> > > possible, and asked to go back to everywhere they announced it and 
> > > announce the corrected truth: "oops, I created a SIG, not a project.  
> > > Sorry."
> > > 
> > > Simplicty and consistency.  That's what makes rules stick.
> > 
> > Amen brother, +infinity
> 
> Yeah, simple.  But it'll look funny if it ever plays out to it's full
> extent.
> 
>     contributor: "Announcing the Fedora foo Project!" x <# of announces>
> 
>     FB: "Erm, no.  You need to go correct yourself and say it's a SIG"
> 
>     contributor: "Sorry, it's really the Fedora foo SIG!" x <announces>
> 
>     <time passes and the SIG works well>
> 
>     FB: "Announcing the Fedora foo Project!"
> 
>     everyone else: "WTH?"
> 
> Maybe not bad, but still looks funny.

True, but this is the innate and unavoidable problem with a many-headed
Hydra.  I'm putting in my +1 too.

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