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[[User: | [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-August/013332.html</ref> coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.: | ||
"In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. | "In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious. | ||
Revision as of 15:54, 18 August 2010
Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
Project Harmony Takes Aim at Open Source Contribution Agreements (ITManagement)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] coverage of Project Harmony, a multi-vendor project to streamline and solve the problems associated with contributor agreements, with participation by Red Hat Inc.:
"In a separate session about contributor license agreements, Red Hat attorney Richard Fontana argued that formal contribution agreements are usually bad, suggested that the legal benefits for the project are dubious.
"It also signals a lack of confidence in free software licenses that regular open source licenses aren't good enough," he said.
Fontana added that he is participating in Project Harmony, though he has mixed feeling about the effort."
The full post is available[2].
LinuxCon: What Is the Future of Linux Development? (LinuxPlanet)
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the future of the Linux kernel, with interviews of attendees at LinuxCon, including Fedora's kernel maintainer, Dave Jones:
"When we ship Fedora updates the story is more of the same, more drivers and fixes to existing drivers," said Dave Jones, Red Hat's Fedora kernel maintainer. "There are some great features in every release, but it's mostly more of the same from our perspective."
Overall the increasing level of complexity and quality is also making it more difficult for new people to contribute to the kernel. Jones believes that the barrier to entry for kernel developers has been raised in recent years.
"A driver that would have been merged in the early days would now get shot down, with request for re-writes," he said.
Jones noted that there are certain areas where new kernel developers can make more of an impact than others.
"The kernel is big enough and there are whole areas are that are prime areas for people to come and clean up," Jones said.
That said, Jones suggested that new developers not choose to start with what he referred to as janitor patches that help to eliminate needless whitespace.
"Find something that is interesting and useful but at the same time easy enough to understand so you can get involved with it," Jones said."
The full post is also available[2].