Appointment of Board Members.

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Aug 16 20:55:03 UTC 2010


On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:55:05PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 14:34 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > >  To me, it seems that FESCo has been giving
> > > up a lot of its duties, responsibilities, and powers and the Board has been
> > > absorbing them.
> >
> >
> > I think much of that is members of the fedora community (red
> > hat-employed and not red hat employed) doing the same thing.
> >
> > they see fesco
> > they see fesco make a decision they disagree with
> > they see the board override a decision fesco makes
> > they conclude there is no point in talking to fesco
> >
> >
> > this happens in other groups with powers that are only in place if the
> > board backs them. For example the hall-monitors. When the 2nd-guessing
> > started of them and the board didn't back the decisions there the group
> > fell apart.
> >
> > that is what it is.
> >
> I agree - but I also see it as a problem.  We should either:
>
> 1) Give the power back to fesco.  Board says, that's fesco's call, not mine.
>

What is FESCo wanting to do that they're not being allowed to do?

	-Mike


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