Thursday, April 28, 2016

Re: Creating a "Fedora Incubator" brand

On 28 April 2016 at 19:36, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 05:20 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 04/28/2016 12:45 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>>>> 2) I like the idea, but an example project might help illustrate here.
>>>
>>> Agreed, though I have some of my own ideas.
>>>
>>>> 3) What are the criteria for "graduating"? Who are the mentors in this
>>>> example? (Mentors are a key part of the incubator for Apache.)
>>>
>>> Do projects have to graduate? I don't want this to be viewed as a
>>> competition between initiatives, and promotion/relegaion/graduation
>>> seem to set a competitive tone. As soon as you start talking about
>>> graduation or promotion, you start getting into resource allocation
>>> issues, etc.
>>>
>>> I'd personally be fine if a project joined the incubator and stayed
>>> there. If they wanted to somehow because an Objective, we already
>>> have paths for that.
>>
>> I can think of at least one Atomic effort (the OSTree continuous
>> integration) which might stay in Incubator permanently.
>>
>> Given that, are you sure you want to call it "Incubator"? That name
>> does imply maturation at some point, even without the Apache precendent.
>>
>> What about "Fedora Innovator" or "Fedora Labs"?
>>
>>
>
> Tongue firmly planted in cheek: Fedora Bike Shop?
>

Shed? [Sorry I couldn't resist..]


--
Stephen J Smoogen.
_______________________________________________
council-discuss mailing list
council-discuss@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproject.org

The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and
open source software and content as a collaborative community.

No comments:

Post a Comment