Spins SIG

The Spins Special Interest Group reviews, tests and approves Fedora Spins. Participants in this SIG are delegates from QA, Release Engineering, the Fedora Project Board, Infrastructure and FESCo.

What is it we do?

The purpose of the Spin SIG is oversee the development of an evolving set of technical best practises to be applied to all community spin concepts. The Spin SIG will also oversee the continued maintenance of approved community spins in the Kickstart Pool, and will regulate the use of any infrastructure as it becomes available for use for the Spins SIG. For example webspace at spins.fedoraproject.org will be made available for spin descriptions. New spin concepts first come to the Spins SIG for discussion and technical review. Once the Spins SIG comes to a consensus as to technical merit, the benefit to Fedora, and the overall feasibility of a proposed spin, that spin concept is passed to the Board for final trademark approval.

Trackers

Tracker Pages:

• Spins in Development
• Spins Ready for Wrangler
• Spins Ready for SIG
• Spins Ready for Board
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 11
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 12
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 13

README Documents

These are the pages the Spins SIG maintains.

• Spins Guidelines - Guidelines for people to submit spin concepts.
• Kickstart Pool - A draft proposal on a kickstart pool.
• Spins Process - A draft on the Community Spin Submission Process.
• Localized Spins - A draft on how Localized Spins should be composed.
• Test Plans - Test Plans for Spins in general
• Recurring Releases - The process of recurring releases of a given Spin
• New Spin Page Template - A template for new Spins creating their Spins page
• Discontinued Spins Process - How to deal with discontinued spins.
• Rebuilding_Spins_Packages - How and when to rebuild the spin-kickstarts packages

Meetings

Spins SIG meetings occur weekly on Mondays in #fedora-meeting, at 21:00 UTC. See our Spins_SIG_Meetings page for outstanding agenda items.

Mailing List

• spins@lists.fedoraproject.org
  • Low traffic
  • Archives
  • Commit notices for spin-kickstarts git repo are posted

Wish List

• A way to install spins into an existing install.
  • What exactly this would mean needs to be worked out first.
    • Just packages and no special setup?
    • Would this just add packages to the current install, or possibly remove some?
    • Would there be any way to remove a spin once it was installed?

Members

• Jeroen van Meeuwen (lead)
• Bob Jensen
• Rahul Sundaram
• Sebastian Dziallas
• Jonathan Steffan
• James Ben Williams
• Fabian Affolter
• Chitlesh Goorah
• Bruno Wolff
• Adam Miller
• Kevin Fenzi
• representatives of Release Engineering, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and our Spins Wrangler open for volunteers