Role of SIG's

[Rahul Sundaram]

Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I had previously left the SIG pages during the move to
>> /PackageMaintainers in the wiki since I wasn't sure the SIG's were
>> limited to coordination of packaging anymore. What would be a
>> appropriate place?
>>
>> Do folks prefer the /PackageMaintainers/SIGs or just /SIG/?
> 
> You should not have to be a packager to join a special interest group.
> The path of least resistance is that people first join a SIG and then
> become a packager, not the other way around.
> 
> Getting people to sign up for special interest groups is a good way to
> recruit new packagers.

Ok. I am moving all of the Extras SIG's to /SIGs hierarchy.

> I would actually consider PackageMaintainers as a SIG in itself.  It
> makes more sense to me to have /SIG/PackageMaintainers rather than
> /PackageMaintainers/SIGs

I spend a lot of time renaming and reorganizing the pages and content 
from /Extras to /PackageMaintainers recently so I would just keep them 
separate since Extras was a project I would consider Packaging 
Maintainers as part of the packaging project in the merged world.

Rahul