Appointment of Board Members.

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 05:38:10 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:52:22PM -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi said the following on 08/16/2010 07:06 PM Pacific Time:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:02:45PM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> >> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >>
> >>> Poelcat was asking for examples where the Board interfered with things
> >>> that were rightly in fesco's sphere of influence.
> >>
> >> This got me thinking:
> >>
> >> Let's forget the past for the moment, and worry about the present.  How
> >> well articulated is FESCo's *current* spheres of influence?
> >>
> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Steering_Committee
> >>
> >> "FESCo handles the process of accepting new features, the acceptance of
> >> new packaging sponsors, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and SIG
> >> Oversight, the packaging process, handling and enforcement of maintainer
> >> issues and other technical matters related to the distribution and its
> >> construction."
> >>
> >> How good is this description?
> >>
> > So... if we go with this... FESCo seems to fit poelcat's view that it's
> > middle management.  FESCo isn't expected to be innovative here.  They're
> > expected to take care that the routines of creating the distribution are
> > there and no wheels come off in the process.  So how good is that
> 
> This is not my view.  This is not what I think. It isn't helpful to the 
> discussion.
> 
Sorry -- I was speaking right after reading this old thread:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2007-June/003324.html

So as to erase that old memory from my head, how has your view of FESCo
changed?  What do you presently think of it as?

-Toshio
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