Working with Fedora

I am keeping a log of my impressions of the various processes involved in working on a Fedora project (Fedora Magazine).


 * WordPress accounts require the OpenID server, which is part of the Fedora user control system.
 * Not sure if it requires signing the contribution form.
 * Why do they try to control the site like that? It adds a substantial amount of fiction to the process.


 * Git repo for the WordPress theme is hosted at Fedora
 * Means I won't be able to use the familiar GitHub pull-requests system
 * That is good, I should be able to collaborate without using GitHub
 * That kinda sucks, because the pull-request workflow rocks!
 * All the Fedora git documentation is for fedpkg, which is not needed on this project.

The basic gist I am getting is that there were some problem that needed to be solved with a single sign-on authority, but it really gets in the way of what I understand as modern webcraft practices. It is a permissions-based org, where each action requires asking if it is okay, instead of folks doing their thing, and then discussing how to best merge it together.