As things are today (see thread Re: directions in Fedora desktop project), it seems if users who want to contribute to Fedora but want to contribute would have to make a community version of the community project Fedora. I am not saying that I think that this sounds good or makes sense.
Generally said I would like a project that takes the software that Fedora has and built a community and distribution of its own. So this project would not have to follow any of the considerations that Red Hat or Fedora Board has ever taken. I would enable everybody to contribute, again. So something like Fedora Unity but with a different flavour and sure no Fedora in its name or logo, although following some Fedora paths in future development. As I have heard making branches of Fedora should become easier. Maybe this would be a choice?
Thilo
Thilo Pfennig wrote:
As things are today (see thread Re: directions in Fedora desktop project), it seems if users who want to contribute to Fedora but want to contribute would have to make a community version of the community project Fedora. I am not saying that I think that this sounds good or makes sense.
It doesnt. We already have hundreds of non Red Hat contributors in Fedora and this is a constantly growing number. The proposal to merge core and extras is a important effort that would strongly move Fedora more into the community front.
Generally said I would like a project that takes the software that Fedora has and built a community and distribution of its own. So this project would not have to follow any of the considerations that Red Hat or Fedora Board has ever taken. I would enable everybody to contribute, again. So something like Fedora Unity but with a different flavour and sure no Fedora in its name or logo, although following some Fedora paths in future development. As I have heard making branches of Fedora should become easier. Maybe this would be a choice?
The goals and benefits of such a fork is not very clear and unless those are clearly stated, it would be difficult to gather any interest in such a effort. Your only major contention about Fedora seems to from misconceptions about the CLA which is a legal safety mechanism used by a large number of Free software projects including Apache, Openoffice.org etc[1]. We havent heard many complaints about the CLA itself but there is some difficulties especially for non technical folks in the process of signing a CLA and joining the various sub projects due to the disconnected nature of these systems and there is a effort to fix that[2].
If you want to focus your efforts on a derivative distribution, there is a large number of them already which you could contribute[3] and we are working on creating tools such as Pilgrim and Pungi that would help the community do this more easily[4]. So if indeed you would like to go this route, the choice is already exercised very well.
Rahul
[1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2006-November/msg00081.h... [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/OpenId [3]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions [4]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess
Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
It doesnt. We already have hundreds of non Red Hat contributors in Fedora and this is a constantly growing number. The proposal to merge core and extras is a important effort that would strongly move Fedora more into the community front.
Ok: non-Red Hat but still CLA contributors? Thilo
On 12/1/06, Thilo Pfennig email@pfennigsolutions.de wrote:
Rahul Sundaram schrieb:
It doesnt. We already have hundreds of non Red Hat contributors in Fedora and this is a constantly growing number. The proposal to merge core and extras is a important effort that would strongly move Fedora more into the community front.
Ok: non-Red Hat but still CLA contributors? Thilo
Your original post doesn't not expound enough upon what you see to be the benifits of your proposal. Please feel us in on those details as I at least fail to see any from parsing your post - however that could be solely my fault.
Peace
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