On 10/31/2013 12:55 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On 10/30/2013 06:05 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> Actually FESCo revisited the requirement of one of it's member having to
> be a member of each WG ( with the exception of the initial one of course
> ) to just there has to be appointed liason.
Oh okay, I was unaware of this, thanks for pointing it out. Is there any
place where I can read more about this so I have more of the background?
It go decided on the fesco meeting that was held straight after our
meeting so it's no wonder you might have missed it ;)
Your draft says, "the remaining two members coming from the
Server
Community itself" so my suggested requirement of system administration
or enterprise OS experience is an attempt to qualify whether or not one
comes from the 'server community.' If you think that specific
illustration of what coming from the server community mean isn't good,
can you maybe provide what you were specifically thinking of when you
mentioned 'server community,'
The role of server administrators
in your draft? Who were you thinking of /
how would you define such a person?
Person that is active in his field but in essence you cannot apply any
particular role to a community of volunteers since the role they play is
what matters to *them* and what *they* decide at the moment they
contribute *their free time* to it.
To be fair, I don't think requiring either system administrator
experience or experience working on an enterprise OS is so rigorous a
requirement as a Red Hat certification. I also don't think we have to
verify it; it's unlikely some unknown person from left field who we
aren't already friends with / familiar with from around Fedora is going
to show up, right?
Apply what you just said to the entire nominators for all the working
groups
But certainly, I think it would help to have people
who have this experience make up the majority (5) of the group because
don't you need to understand about how servers are used to understand
how to develop a successful server product?
Yes to develop a server product, for PRD no you dont.
My training / background /
experience as a UX designer at least has always pointed towards
understanding your user's needs as most important to developing a good
product.
How do you think the requirement would drive away potential
contributors?
Simple because by doing that you are adding a barrier of entry and at
the same time forming a group of elites.
> ( those contributors might make up them not meeting the said
> requirements by pure enthusiasm and the more experience would just help
> guide that energy into the right places )
Couldn't they take one of the four seats that doesn't require the
background?
> Actually after going through an PDR
Which one?
Actual there where several I went through to see the common denominator
in them so I could start writing a sample draft for us to start working on.
> I actually come more to the
> conclusion that this is more an requirement that we should have and if
> we do not we should either exercise this clause in my proposal "If there
> are no candidates available, the existing remaining members of the
> Server WG will fill the seat by selecting a candidate and approving by
> majority consensus." and pump the number of server community members to
> 11 or 13 ( we are going to need all those people anyway. )
I'm worried that having more people in the group would make it
unnecessarily challenging to manage and come to consensus on things -
even to come up with a time slot that everyone could make on a regular
basis.
PRD are very specific in their nature and function and can only be
applied to a single product not community of products let alone on a
community of volunteers.
Applying it to these 3 groups will fail in the same manner as you tried
to apply it to Red Hat as a company or Fedora in whole as in making a
single product out of both of these.
And afaik I know the other half and the presiding one required to make
it work is the MRD which the community should have done first and that
part has been conveniently left out by the individuals driving this.
May I ask how, specifically, do you envision having that many
extra people being helpful - what would they do? What would they bring
to the group that it would lack otherwise being 9 people?
You need everyone one on board and all hands on deck to have the
slightest chance of achieving this.
The function of the voting member is more of steering the ship then
dictate the direction as in ensuring that we get from point a) to point
b) and stay on course
In the end of the day only thing we actually would need to vote upon (
as I see it ) is which server application we make the first product out
of and that's a vote everyone should be a part of anyway.
> Now having said that after going through an PDR, an PDR cannot
be
> applied to the server WG since in fact it is the documentation which
> will be describing the transition process from an server application
> that we ship to an "product" so as I see it the initial server WG is
> setting the framework for that as well as pushing 3 products ( to iron
> out any issue in that process ) through the transition process and
> through that framework.
>
> Ones that has been achieve the role of the server WG will be more
> selecting which application to choose next and push it through that
> process.
>
I don't follow; can you explain a little bit more what you mean here? I
don't think the server working group is pushing 3 products; isn't the
server one of three products? (The three being server, cloud,
workstation?) Or am I missing a reference here?
You cannot apply PRD to those product again PRD are very specific in
their nature and function
> There should be just one election and that's for the server
group that
> will replaces the initial *chosen* WG after that there should not be any
> other elections that's a burden we do not want in a process like this so
> we either do as my proposal indicates which is to have each composition
> group being responsabile for chosing their member to appoint to their
> respective seat by or the individual stepping down selects another
> individual to take his place or better yet the remaining members of the
> WG choose an individual to take that seat.
In your opinion, is the current composition of the working group is
temporary and just to set up the framework,
Not in my opinion afaik there is supposed to be election in January in
every WG to let each group re-elect or replace the initial pointed
members but maybe I misunderstood something.
then there should be a
one-time election to elect the real working group?
It's left for the relevant sub community to decide they might as well
appoint someone as I see you need individuals from within those
community to make PRD work.
After which point
there will be no elections but each member would step down at their
leisure and choose their replacement with the rest of the group's approval?
For the first this Fedora is an community of volunteers so if people
feel they don't like doing some thing they stop doing it or as you
phrase it "step down at their leisure" so you will never be able to
force people to do something they dont want to do and having them
choosing their replacement within the group that avoids the issue of
finding a new one. ( Unless the replacement is not approved =
Attempting to apply PRD on a community of volunteers is rather bold move
and we dont even have proper tools to do PRD and track them and their
progress properly and so efficiently in the project.
JBG