CC repo

[Rahul Sundaram]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Re: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/65
> 
> Thanks to Jon for capturing the Board notes into that ticket.  I meant
> to respond to FESCo by Wednesday but failed.  You can find the Board
> meeting log here for more information:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2009-03-03
> 
> It seemed like a little over half of the Board was interested in the
> idea and generally positive about it, but was unsure of the parameters
> for a project to which trademark approval would apply.  A couple -1
> votes were also captured before the Board generally agreed they needed
> more data for an informed decision.
> 
> I think the best way to move forward would be for the originator to
> write a proposal that clarifies at least the following, to address
> some of the questions raised in the Board meeting:
> 
> * Why a repo and not a cross-distro tool?
> 
> * Would we be creating an issue for CC originators who lose traffic to
>   a Fedora-specific content container?  If so, how do we mitigate it?
> 
> I'm cc'ing the fedora-advisory-board list and setting followups to go
> there.

CC'ing Steve, a friend of mine who brought this to fedora-packaging list 
   which resulted in all these discussion. Steve, you might want to add 
your thoughts on why you wanted a repository.

Rahul