[fab] Succession Planning

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 03:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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. 

The "post-" is an important distinction.  I would word it "within 30
days after," which sets a deadline with enough time for decompression,
back-patting, and lessons learned post-release.  Longer than that, and
it's getting too close to the release of FC(n+1)test1.

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