[Ambassadors] Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 01:00 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>
>> Agreed.  When I ran for FESCO, among my reasons for self-nominating
>> (other than having ideas about what FESCO should do and delusions that
>> I had contribution to make) was that the nominee pool was, at that
>> time, short of what was required to hold the election.
>>
>> And I got in.
>
>
> Here you claim you got automatically in because the nomination pool was to
> short
>
>
>>
>> And if I'm what you'd consider popular, I suggest taking a few steps
>> into the big blue room with the green carpet and having a look-see.
>
>
> You certainly are far from being on my popular list and I suggest next time
> you at least communicate with feature process owners before you start
> royally fucking up their work they have been working at for several release
> cycles!
>
> I'll probably have to be spending this and the next release cycle to clean
> up your mess ...

There is absolutely no need for language and personal insults such as
this, it's completely inappropriate for any Fedora list. That said
it's also not the job of FESCo to interfere with anyone's features,
it's the job of FESCo to approve whether it's adhering to the general
technical direction of Fedora and that it's not contrary to other
features either already in Fedora or proposed. The whole idea of
having multiple people on the board and various committees is that it
is majority rules and a process of peer review. Clearly you don't
understand how it works otherwise you would have realised that and not
made the deeply regretful comments.

I think that if you feel so strongly maybe you should stand for
election next time to enact change as it's all too easy to criticise
when others actually pull their hand up to do the work. Having been on
the board for a year already I thought long and hard before standing
again because it's a non insignificant amount of time. The same goes
with the other roles. In the very least you could actually document a
propose changes for the others that are doing the work to review and
vote on.

Regards,
Peter