Fedora Board Recap 2010-10-25

[Jesse Keating]

On 10/28/10 8:06 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Jared K. Smith
> <jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I know all that.  That does not make anything more clear.  The way the
>>> decision was made, communicated (I had to ask twice!) and basically
>>> punted to another group to make IS NOT CLEAR.
>>
>> I agree with Josh that the communication was not clear.  The intention
>> was not to simply throw roadblocks in Christoph's path, or to simply
>> push the responsibility of the decision onto someone else.  I thought
>> we had stated this quite clearly in the Board meetings the past couple
>> of weeks, but we obviously didn't do a good job of communicating that
>> externally.  When I realized on Monday afternoon that there was still
>> a lot of confusion, I made an effort to reach out to Christoph to help
>> explain the rationale behind the Board's decision.  Christoph and I
>> had what I considered to be a healthy and productive phone
>> conversation on Monday afternoon, and I think he better understands
>> where the Fedora Board sits on this issue, and knows what he needs to
>> do to move forward with his proposal.
> 
> To be perfectly honest, I don't know whether to applaud you for the
> novel idea (in Fedora anyway) of using a telecommunication device to
> have a high bandwidth conversation to discuss and resolve an issue, or
> whether to berate you for doing that at the exclusion of the entire
> rest of the Fedora project.  So I'll do both.  Good job, next time
> remember that others also need that information.
> 
> Thank you for the recap.

I agree here.  This recap would have been a /much/ more clear post on
the issue.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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