Automating hosted projects?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
>> Part of the sanity checking is looking at what's requested itself.
>
> What do you look for?

Things that would probably be looked for:

Easy to automatically sanity check
Fedora Sucks project
Fedora Eats Donkey Dicks project

Hard to sanity check automatically check
Upload of the cisco source code from pirate bay saying it is a Public
Domain project.
Upload of the entire Millie Vanili ogg archive under the same license.

Fedora Unity and Cooperation KDE- Gnome might raise some eyebrows but
would not be easy to auto-sanity-check.


>> And do you think the quality of the projects  at fedorahosted is going
>> to get better or get worse if we make it happen automatically?
>>
>> I think it will decline.
>
> Perhaps it will but maybe it will be offset by more people taking advantage
> of it. A thriving community can afford to have a few less active members. It
> is a potential trade off to consider.

A thriving community also requires the resources to maintain it. Are
we positioning ourselves as a new SourceForge? Do we have the
resources to make it not suck because everyone and their brother have
uploaded their 3 line patch to the kernel as a new git tree?  Having
seen what happens when Red Hat is not ready to add disk/cpu/bandwidth
as much as people want it.. its better to be picky and up than popular
and down. Those who forget sourceware.org are prone to repeat it.


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