Appointment of Board Members.

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Mon Aug 16 14:09:47 UTC 2010


Toshio Kuratomi said the following on 08/13/2010 01:48 PM Pacific Time:
> Notes:
> * In the Max Spevack era, the Board was pushed away from making decisions
>    for two reasons: 1) FESCo was deemed to be the body that understood the
>    technical issues at hand and therefore the body that should make most of
>    the decisions regarding Fedora.  2) The Board was not all elected and
>    therefore didn't have as much of a "mandate from the people".  In the Paul
>    Frields era, the Board started to make many more decisions.  I don't think
>    that's necessarily a good thing as they've trampled all over reason #1
>    above but being fully elected would help to alleviate reason #2.

I don't recall things going down this way.  Please name some concrete 
examples of this "trampling" so we can be discussing the same thing.

John


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