Re: [RPM Fusion] Update of "Goals" by AndreaMusuruane
On 25.02.2009 09:27, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis
<fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> === Ideas nobody is working on ===
>> + [musuruan: is it feasible to have some of these ideas as GSoC?]
> I'm not really familiar with GSoC, but I doubt that it'll work when we do it
> directly. Maybe it's easier and better if it could be done as GSoC projects
> done in Fedora. But I'm not sure if Fedora would be willing to do something
> like that.
The basic idea is to gain visibility and to find some developers (i.e.
non-packagers) since we need them. I don't know if GCoC is feasible or
not, but it is very visible.
Sure, but do we have the manpower to mentor someone and will Google
think we have it/accept us as project? I wouldn't do the latter if I
would have to chose; I'd tell us "realize your ideas as GSoC project
within the Fedora project"
>> + + [musuruan: can we have a synergy with 3rd party doc
sites? Fedora FAQ
>> and Fedorasolved comes to my mind.]
> Yes, maybe that would be a good idea.
Do somebody in RPM Fusion know them and can contact them?
I know some of the Fedora Unity guys. They sometimes ask for advice. But
the cooperation could be better -- in a few cases I saw them documenting
workarounds instead of telling us to fix our shit...
And I for one don't like the structure of both websites much (maybe it's
just me). I'd much prefer a wiki and a structure like
http://ubuntuguide.org
>> * rpmfusion-buildsys-list is broken; + * no announcement
mailing list;
>> + + [musuruan: what is the problem in having one?]
> it's the usual problem: Somebody need to sit down and do it/poke the people
> with access to the necessary places ;-)
Yep... we need more people with these rights.
Well, we IMHO need to remove *all* "Single points of failure" in our
human or computer infrastructure ;-)
>> + + [musuruan: can we look for more contributors in the
fedora-docs-list?]
> Sure.
Do somebody in RPM Fusion know them and can contact them?
And what exactly would we ask for? Same question btw reg. the 3rd party
docs site idea above...
>> + * we need a place where to host RPM Fusion projects.
Something like
>> [[https://fedorahosted.org|Fedora Hosted]].
> Do we? Why can't we use Fedora Hosted directly? Sure, some of the tools we
> need may deal with nonfree software, but I guess all of us want the tools
> itself be open source and thus acceptable for Fedora Hosted?
I'm not sure but I don't think that we can host applications whose
licenses do not follow the Fedora Guidelines in Fedora Hosted.
No, of course not. Maybe I was not clear enough: The tools we need might
deal with non-free software, but I assume the tools itself (like
rpmfusion-config-display, kmodtool, ...) will be open-source and thus
should acceptable for Fedora Hosted as long as the Fedora project
doesn't say "no".
Cu
knurd