This is inspired by the conversation at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-cloud-edition-not-an-edition-and-the-future/34064. There are a lot of things around this that exist in people's minds or scattered around various old tickets, meeting logs, and wiki pages, and it'd be good to document better.

We have an "Edition Promotion Policy", which we approved recently. I think that policy is basically good and I don't suggest any major changes to it. But, I discovered (I'd say "remembered" but that would clearly be a lie) that we actually did have a prior policy, way back from ticket #4 (Fedora Board, pre-Council). This was approved at a June 2014 meeting.

The Fedora.next wiki page was updated with this text based on that ticket:

What makes a "product"?

• Addresses a new, relevant, and broad usecase or userbase that a Fedora Product is not currently serving"
• The usecase should be something the Board sees as being a long term investment
• The Product should be coherent with all of Fedora's foundations

(At least I was trying to record things. The current thing where we have an actual document repository with official policies is obviously a better way!)

Anyway, I think the current policy leans pretty hard on the "how" and does not capture the bigger picture outlined in the earlier one. I'd like to add this to the current document, of course with s/product/Edition/i and s/Board/Council/. (I'm thinking a paragraph right after the first one.)

Any thoughts or objections? My thinking here is that this is not a policy change, just documenting an existing policy I've unearthed, so I intend to do this via "lazy consensus" as per the Fedora Council charter sometime in the next week. (As per that process, if you think this needs more consideration, note that here and we'll switch to full consensus.)