[fab] Proposed Project: Fedora Testing
Patrick W. Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com
Thu Jul 13 05:58:12 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:26, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> Sorry guys, catching up on mail, but I did have one comment here:
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > 4. What does it mean to be a formal Fedora Project project, beyond the
> > > name? That is, is someone restricted from using the Wiki for the
> > > project until then? How about CVS? Plone?
> >
> > This is one of the recurring questions in my mind. And I don't have an
> > obvious answer to it.
>
> Yeah, I don't think the answer *is* obvious, but I think the answer is
> important.
>
> To me, the answer is *an identified leadership structure that makes
> things happen*. My take: any Fedora undertaking that is mature enough to
> (a) develop a critical mass of people who *do* something instead of
> talking about something, and (b) easily integrate other people who want to
> help by handing them useful actions to perform... is mature enough to be
> called a Fedora project.
>
> Really, it's a project when the *participants* decide it's a project...
> not when *we* decide it's a project. The board should be encouraging
> those "incubator projects" to *take action*, and should reward those that
> *do* take action by giving them "official project status".
>
The draft page I put together the last time this topic came up is on the wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects
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