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 as well as spin owners.

What is it we do?

The purpose of the Spins SIG is to oversee the development of an evolving set of technical best practises to be applied to all community spin concepts. The Spins 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 http://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 15
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 14
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 13
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 12
• Accepted Spins for Fedora 11

README Documents

These are the pages the Spins SIG maintains.

• Spins Guidelines - Guidelines for people to submit spin concepts.
• Kickstart Pool - A draft proposal for 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
• Spins_SIG_Review_Checklist - More guidelines for kickstart files
• Recurring Releases - The process of recurring releases of a given Spin
• New Spin Page Template - A template for new Spins to help create their Spins page
• Discontinued Spins Process - How to deal with discontinued spins.
• Rebuilding Spins Packages - How and when to rebuild the spin-kickstarts packages
• Spins repo directives - When to adjust repo directives in base spins
• Spins Wrangler - About the spins wrangler position
• Spins release page - List of spins for the upcoming release
• Spins Lead - Need to write a job description for this position
• Spin Owners - Need to write expectations for Spin Owners

Tracking Spins SIG tasks

• We keep track of some of our outstanding tasks and issues using the spins-kickstarts trac instance.
• There is also a spins-specific part of the schedule for the upcoming release.

Test spins

• Nightly builds from the kickstart files in the git repository. These are what will be available for the alpha and beta release for alternate spins (those under the Spins SIG).
• Kickstart files are available from the spin-kickstarts git repository .

Meetings

Currently we aren't meeting pending the future of Spins SIG discussion at the Tempe FUDCON. See our Spins SIG Meetings page for outstanding agenda items. Logs are available from past meetings.

Mailing List

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