FESCo future

Greg Dekoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 15:59:46 UTC 2006


And honestly, I use the word "honestly" way too much.  Honestly.

--g

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:

>
> (Note: I will be calling this new project "F-star" until someone tells me to 
> stop.)
>
> My $0.02 on the structure of the F-star board:
>
> No mandate of RH/non-RH seats.  At all.  Pure meritocracy.
>
> It's time to put this model to the test.  If the packaging community has any 
> sense, and I believe they do, then they will elect a healthy number of 
> Redhatters to F-star -- because if they don't, it will be *much* more 
> difficult to accomplish *anything*.  It's in everyone's best interest to put 
> Redhatters on the F-star board.  I believe that the community understands 
> that.
>
> At the same time, if a particular Redhatter becomes a belligerent jackass, 
> then the community is fully empowered to boot that Redhatter right the hell 
> out of the project.  I don't expect this ever to be the case, honestly, 
> because I think our community is comprised of grown-ups.  But the safeguard 
> is important.
>
> Honestly, we've already got strong controls at the Fedora Project Board 
> level.  If things go terribly wrong with F-Star, the process for correction 
> is simple: the Grand Poobah puts a bullet in the whole damned thing.  The 
> cost of such a failure would be enormous for everyone involved, though, and 
> for that reason I suspect that it will never happen.
>
> What are we afraid of?
>
> --g
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>> seth vidal schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:52 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> Hmm, all I wanted to avoid is that more than 50% of the members are from
>>>> Red Hat as a lot of people won't like that.
>>> Let's make sure that there is a mention that if a non-rh member takes a
>>> job at rh that they don't lose their seat immediately. Only at the next
>>> set of elections will their present employment be taken into account.
>>> 
>>> does that reasonable?
>> 
>> Hmm, that okay for me, but I suspect some people won't like it. I had
>> something like the next para in my first local draft, but I threw it out
>> before sending it to the list as I thought "not important enough" ;-)
>> 
>> An additional non-rh member is appointed if a non-rh member gets a job
>> at rh and due to that less than 50% of the seats would be filled by
>> non-rh members.
>> 
>> CU
>> thl
>> 
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