[fab] Succession Planning

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:12 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Seth did his duty on this issue back in May (bravo, sirrah!):
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-May/msg00023.html
> 
> We subsequently dropped this particular thread, but should resurrect it.
> (Eww, shambling reanimated thread.)  I volunteer to write this up into a
> draft on the wiki... any further thoughts are welcome.
> 
> Here's one:
> 
> * FC6 is rapidly approaching.  Is the intent that the board will replace
> one-half the community members at this time, or will the first
> nomination/election process take place at ~FC7?  If we do it at FC6,
> half the seats will only serve for one release, which seems a bit, er,
> truncated, while the alternative puts half the seats in positions of
> Phenomenal Cosmic Power(tm) for three releases.  I would rather see a
> "buyback" of whatever honeymoon period the Board had, and choose the
> latter option, but that's an issue that needs a quick decision.
> 
> Awaiting the chopping block,

Definitely post-FC6, preferably post-FC7. The current board IMO needs to
provide a strong path to lead forward. 

Rahul