Elected/Appointed Board
Max Spevack
mspevack at redhat.com
Tue Apr 22 02:17:41 UTC 2008
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Actually we have FESCo, the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee,
> which is wholly elected, and often the place where real decisions get
> made. The Fedora board is good at setting high level goals and
> desires, but it really comes down to FESCo and the other committees
> (like releng, packaging, spins, etc...) to turn that high level ideal
> into tangible decisions and direction.
+1 -- in fact, after we merged Core and Extras together during the F7
timeframe, a lot of people were asking "well, what happens to the Fedora
Extras Steering Committee". I, knowing myself well enough to know that
the best thing I could do for Fedora was *not* pretend to be an
engineering manager, was one of the people who advocated for morphing
FESCo into the body that could handle the day to day engineering actions
of Fedora, and that FESCo was also the body *best qualified* to handle
it, and trusting that FESCo would elect the *right people* to the
positions, regardless of where they worked.
Not suggesting that it's all been a trivially easy process, but we
definitely have a track record of trying to push decision making power
into the hands of the community as much as possible.
One of the things that I told Paul when he took over from me as FPL was
that still undone on my List of Goals was giving the various VIPs within
Red Hat one last explanation of why the Right Thing To Do with Fedora is
to turn the board over into a 5-elected/4-appointed configuration.
In my mind, at least, it was always the plan that we'd end up there
eventually.
Paul's running with that ball now, so I'll leave further updates to him.
--Max
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