Appointment of Board Members.

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Aug 17 13:15:39 UTC 2010


On 08/16/2010 04:56 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:15:42PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>
>> The problem I see is that for many situations there is little
>> difference between the two. While the Board is something like a People
>> Engineering Steering Committee it is hard to separate Distribution
>> from People at times. And without a formal charter of where things
>> line, both groups spend a lot of time throwing issues back and forth
>> because they don't feel its their ball but the other guys. [Even with
>> a formal charter this will happen.. just look at how every government
>> throws stuff from Legislative to Executive to Judicial and back
>> again.]
>>
> +1.

FWIW, I proposed formally chartering and separating the responsibilities
between these groups a LONG LONG time ago, and was told that it was
unnecessary.

I would happily support such an effort now.

~spot


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