[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 09:16:21 UTC 2008


On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:52:17 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:08:53AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:59:06 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> > > My proposal has always been to use the exact same procedures than in
> > > fedora, so nothing like in fedora legacy.
> > 
> > In Fedora you don't become a kernel/glibc/X pkg maintainer all of a
> > sudden. You would either work at Red Hat, or you would have to use the
> > current kernel-maintainers as your proxy for quite a long time before they
> > would approve a "commits" request in pkgdb.
> 
> The idea here is to open ACLs for release that are no longer supported.

I do understand that, but we talk past eachother. Let's assume you start
with the F-8 branch opened up to all packagers. Then you still need a
procedure where previously unknown people join the project and be
sponsored or something like that to get direct access to the pkgs and
buildsys and so on.




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