Intel moves moblin MIDs from Ubuntu to Fedora!

[yersinia]

For me it is interesting the reason

" Dirk Hohndel, Intel's director of Linux and open-source strategy, told *The
Reg* there was no falling out with Ubuntu, but the move to Fedora was a
technical decision based *on the desire to adopt RPM for package management*
.
"


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Very cool news. I look forward to the SIG, the spin and seeing Fedora
> > on even more cool devices :-)
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/moblin_reworked/
>
> Here's what's not clear.... is intel going to look to talk with us
> about making this part of the larger Fedora project or is it going to
> be a downstream derived distribution that will include components such
> that it can not carry the Fedora name?  Or are they planning to just
> leverage the existing Fedora distribution bits and do their own thing
> in a way that isn't aligned with existing Fedora contribution
> guidance? Have I missed a discussion concerning Moblin interaction
> with Fedora in the "project" sense? If I have please point me to it so
> I can read up.
>
> A number of questions spring to mind, chief among them whether the new
> Moblin can be incorporated under our secondary arch policy?  How
> different is the Atom processor anyways?  If they are serious about
> making this more attractive to developers, I think we need to have a
> serious discussion about whether or not the technical work they are
> doing can and should live under the Fedora project umbrella.
> Can/Should Moblin be the part of the Fedora project aimed at mobile
> devices? Sharing to some extent policy, best practices guidance, and
> contributor-base.  Or should it sit outside our project completely?
>
> -jef
>
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