Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:15:19 +0100
> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> 
>> 1) it's very clear
>> 2) downstream can point to sources hosted by the Fedora Project
>> 3) sources do not have to be stored 3 years, but (for example) a one 
>> release lifecycle
>>
>> If possible, this certainly looks like a winner.
> 
> Well, sources would need to be available for as long as downstreams
> have done a binary release based from those sources.

This isn't true. It's the other way around. Downstream may point to FP 
as long as FP has these sources online. From the moment FP decides to 
take these sources off-line it's up to downstream to decide whether they 
take their binaries off-line or whether to continue hosting the sources 
themselves. Practically FP would commit to, say, hosting the sources for 
everything it releases for the life-cycle of the release -it's then up 
to downstream whether they themselves extend that period by taking over.

   Whether Fedora
> hosts those sources, or Fedora says they'll host those sources for a
> period of time and then retire them, at which point the downstream has
> to pick up the sources is debatable.  Easier to manage if we provide
> hosting for as many downstreams as possible, at least the exploaded
> content so that hardlinks can be maximized.
> 

Am I correct to understand that you'd rather (offer to) host the sources 
for downstream projects separately (but hard-linked as much as possible 
to save some space), then just host (all of) the sources?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip