Lots of spins! (was Re: Topics in need of RH Legal)

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:28 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:35 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:29:32PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:13:21 -0400
> > > Tim Burke <tburke at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > - What are the board's acceptance criteria for bestowing blessings?
> > > 
> > > This is a good question.
> > > 
> > > > - What are the benefits one gets from having a spin blessed?  ie,
> > > > what does it imply?
> > 
> > Primarily, the right to use the Fedora trademarks and name.
> > 
> > 
> > > Probably
> > > A) being produced at release time by the Fedora Release Engineering Team
> > > B) being mirrored along side the other official spins on the mirrors
> > > and torrent
> > 
> > These aren't necessarily true, but may be in some circumstances.  I
> > wouldn't want to add too many extra spins by the Release Engineering
> > team.  Being listed as a torrent isn't difficult so we can pretty
> > easily offer that; being posted to the master mirror servers should be
> > a higher bar IMHO.
> 
> And, fwiw, I think we need to be looking at the best ways for
> distributing the multitudes of spins (as well as having them created
> without it being done by the rel-eng team) as well as highlighting them,
> figuring out the differences, etc.  But that's a whole other discussion
> from the legal side of things
> 

I'll say something ridiculous and then we can talk about it - but S3
buckets can be made available as torrent seeds.

Giving people access to upload to our S3 buckets for their spins will
help keep it off of our main seed and yet still let us control it.

-sv