Appointment of Board Members.

[John Poelstra]

Toshio Kuratomi said the following on 08/16/2010 07:06 PM Pacific Time:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:02:45PM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>
>>> Poelcat was asking for examples where the Board interfered with things
>>> that were rightly in fesco's sphere of influence.
>>
>> This got me thinking:
>>
>> Let's forget the past for the moment, and worry about the present.  How
>> well articulated is FESCo's *current* spheres of influence?
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee
>>
>> "FESCo handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of
>> new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG
>> Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer
>> issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its
>> construction."
>>
>> How good is this description?
>>
> So... if we go with this... FESCo seems to fit poelcat's view that it's
> middle management.  FESCo isn't expected to be innovative here.  They're
> expected to take care that the routines of creating the distribution are
> there and no wheels come off in the process.  So how good is that

This is not my view.  This is not what I think. It isn't helpful to the 
discussion.

John