December 2010 Fedora Election Plan
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 21 00:27:41 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 12:42 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On 10/20/10 10:15 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > I'm sensing a growing frustration from some of the people who have
> > been heavily involved in Fedora for a long time, a sense of burnout.
> > We've all felt it from time to time. The lack of people stepping
> > forward to take on leadership tasks, such as the Spins SIG leader, the
> > election coordinator, and similar is concerning to me. Am I alone in
> > this?
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> You're not alone. I'm one of those with burn out. I'll tell you why
> too. We've had obviously poisonous people in our communities for years,
> and as a project we seem to be unable to either convince them to spend
> their energy elsewhere, or force the issue. Instead we let them
> continue to spew over our email lists, our bugzilla, our IRC channels,
> etc... It's quite frustrating, particularly when these people pick up
> "followers" who think it's OK to keep doing crap like that. I've yet to
> see an effective policy or proposal on how to deal with this. Show me a
> candidate who has one, I'll vote for 'em.
>
No candidate's proposal will work unless the board and the FPL are
willing to back complete excommunication of poisonous people.
-sv
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