[RPM Fusion] Update of "Goals" by AndreaMusuruane

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 25.02.2009 09:27, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at 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