Fedora Remix - Clarification

Karsten Wade wrote:

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:42:23AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Chris Tyler wrote:


Rahul,

If you want to call it "Fedora", then make it official.

Oh, believe me. I tried. I got one of the dozen spins hosted at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org and then it was stopped because of lack
of space or it was considered too much effort for composing all the
different variants or some much.


I'm confused on something here.

Can't you create the "Fedora Hindi Spin" if it otherwise meets the
spin guidelines, then host it where you would a Fedora Remix?

I don't recall that spins are required to be hosted from
spin.fedoraproject.org, it's more a matter of what packages are in the
composition.

- Karsten


Well, I'm not sure if I got it correctly, but as far as I understood the
policies, you need...


* Spin SIG's approval to get your kickstart file into the GIT repo

* Board's approval to be able to use the Fedora trademark, which
requires you to only use software that is in Fedora


* Rel-Eng's approval, which includes hosting on spins.fp.o and the
release of the spin together with a specific version of Fedora, so that
you can e.g. make it into the release notes or so


From my understanding, one should be able to get Spin SIG's approval
(for the technical side) and board's approval (for the legal / trademark
side) and host the spin then somewhere else, without having rel-eng's
approval. That way, you should be able to call it "Fedora [Something]
Spin" without having it hosted on spins.fp.o...


But that's just how I got it. Might be wrong, though.

--Sebastian

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Karsten Wade wrote:

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:42:23AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Chris Tyler wrote:


Rahul,

If you want to call it "Fedora", then make it official.

Oh, believe me. I tried. I got one of the dozen spins hosted at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org and then it was stopped because of lack
of space or it was considered too much effort for composing all the
different variants or some much.


I'm confused on something here.

Can't you create the "Fedora Hindi Spin" if it otherwise meets the
spin guidelines, then host it where you would a Fedora Remix?

I don't recall that spins are required to be hosted from
spin.fedoraproject.org, it's more a matter of what packages are in the
composition.

- Karsten


Well, I'm not sure if I got it correctly, but as far as I understood the
policies, you need...


* Spin SIG's approval to get your kickstart file into the GIT repo

* Board's approval to be able to use the Fedora trademark, which
requires you to only use software that is in Fedora


* Rel-Eng's approval, which includes hosting on spins.fp.o and the
release of the spin together with a specific version of Fedora, so that
you can e.g. make it into the release notes or so


From my understanding, one should be able to get Spin SIG's approval
(for the technical side) and board's approval (for the legal / trademark
side) and host the spin then somewhere else, without having rel-eng's
approval. That way, you should be able to call it "Fedora [Something]
Spin" without having it hosted on spins.fp.o...


But that's just how I got it. Might be wrong, though.

--Sebastian

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Karsten Wade wrote:

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:42:23AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Chris Tyler wrote:


Rahul,

If you want to call it "Fedora", then make it official.

Oh, believe me. I tried. I got one of the dozen spins hosted at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org and then it was stopped because of lack
of space or it was considered too much effort for composing all the
different variants or some much.


I'm confused on something here.

Can't you create the "Fedora Hindi Spin" if it otherwise meets the
spin guidelines, then host it where you would a Fedora Remix?


If I understand correctly, the current practise is not to allow out of
sync spin releases. I don't see a way to do a new Fedora 10 spin now and
have to wait for Fedora 11.


Other than that,for this to really work, the advantage of getting a work
as Fedora branded has to overweigh the overhead introduced by the
process and new uncertainties everytime.


About a dozen localized spins were approved by both Fedora Board and
rel-eng and the process was followed as it existed then during Fedora 8
development. Only one spin got hosted. Instead, if I adopt the secondary
brand, I have a bit more control and assurance that the work I put in,
doesn't get wasted.


Rahul

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's wrong with "Fedora Remix - Hindi" or "Hindi Fedora Remix"?
> Those are both perfectly descriptive.

I'd rather have the former than the latter. Sounds too much like what
the local MTV Channel dishes out (in terms of song remixes)

~s


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