Adopt Fedora Innovation Lifecycle as Council Policy #564
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Summary
Council should adopt the proposed Fedora Innovation Lifecycle process as Council Policy
Background
The policy draft under consideration for adoption can be found in the Fedora wiki at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jspaleta/Drafts/FedoraInnovationLifecycle
This is a final policy draft represents a lighter weight version of the initial straw proposal
This process being presented for adoption takes in feedback from the Fedora discussion thread and the FRCL meeting feedback.
Details
Steps to complete:
I request Council adopt this policy for a 1 year probationary period, during which time initial candidate Sandbox project proposals can be presented to enter the sandbox stage of the lifecycle process. It is expected that the first candidate projects will result in policy refinement proposals that council will need to consider as amendments to this policy.
Council will review the innovation lifecycle policy after 1 year, and may at that time make significant changes or shutter the process if its clear there has been no interest in using it during the probationary period.
During this first probationary year the FPL will work with the Red Hat CLE team, and the Fedora infrastructure team to refine the concept of a standard sandbox infrastructure offering in consultation with community interested in making use of this integration pathway.
The straw proposal was covered by LWN already:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062579/
I've tried to address Brockmeier's constructive criticism in the the article he wrote by being more explicit in this final proposal by adding explicit community feedback periods as part of lifecycle stage entry/transitions.
Discussed in 2026-05-06 Fedora Council meeting.
The Council reviewed the drafted Fedora Innovation Lifecycle proposal. Feedback highlighted the need for clarity regarding gating, prerequisites, and infrastructure provisioning during the Review phase, as well as a request for concrete examples to accompany the policy. The immediate next step is to circulate a formal policy proposal draft privately among the Council for early feedback before advancing to the public Policy Change Policy process.
Follow-up Items
Next Steps: Review the upcoming formal policy proposal draft.
Owner: @jspaleta to share the draft with the Council via the private mailing list before Red Hat Summit.
As per the council meeting on Wednesday, June 3 2026, this proposal is still in progress. A draft is available for public review on discourse right now and a more focused conversation will happen after Flock. The council did agree that this needs to be surfaced to the community as much as possible to build maximum awareness. More information on the discussion can be found from the meeting logs https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2026-06-03/fedora-council-meeting.2026-06-03-14.07.log.html
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