Fesco membership policies

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 16:15:05 +0000,
  Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> Something that was brought up at the last fesco meeting is that 
> fesco membership is currently restricted to members of the packaging 
> group. That's arguably overly restrictive - fesco is intended to be the 
> body with technical oversight over the entire project, not merely 
> packaging, and in that situation it seems odd to restrict membership to 
> a subset of the people under fesco's pervue.
> 
> There's a few things we can do here. We can keep the status quo. We can 
> add new groups such as qa. Or we can open it to the entire project and 
> just assume that the electorate will ensure that nobody inappropriate 
> gets elected.
> 
> Anyone have opinions on what we should be doing here?

I'd like to see it opened up a bit. I think at least some people in the
QA team have a strong technical background and would be good to have
on FESCO.

The issue that came up in the discussion was that there is a good group
to use to include for QA. The qa group isn't really used and proventesters
is a bit broad and its future is in question. One possible solution is
to start using the qa group to track the core members of the qa team.