Openness and naming... board lists, issue tracker, and channels

[Jeremy Katz]

Matt is mostly right.  We did seed the -advisory-board list with some
people from whom we wanted to be able to solicit input on project wide
matters even though they weren't a part of the governance in any other way.
 The thought was similar to that of a startup which will frequently have a
board, who makes decisions, and an advisory board, who are good to have for
testing ideas and their broader connections and perspective.

- Jeremy


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:

> Historically, the fedora-advisory-board list was created as a place (aside
> from fedora-devel) to discuss community-wide not purely technical topics.
>  It was also self-nominated - if you found the list and chimed in, then you
> were a part of it - there wasn't a formal membership policy, invitation
> method, or even exclusion method or intent.  Yes, Fedora Project Board
> members (past and present), candidates, election wranglers, program
> managers, etc. would usually join and contribute, so it was in a sense an
> "inner circle" - those who cared to participate in the politics of Fedora.
>
> Use of the list (and corresponding IRC channel) has diminished greatly in
> the last couple years - so one can debate the necessity of either channel.
>  But I suspect those conversations are still necessary and happening
> somewhere (where, I'm not sure, as my dayjob commitments have kept me from
> being as active in Fedora in recent years).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 01:09:21PM -0700, Luis Villa wrote:
>> > There are lots of people on this list who aren't on the board, and I
>> > presume the actual board also has a separate mailing list - perhaps
>> > board-discuss would be more appropriate?
>>
>> Yes, good suggestion.
>>
>>
>> > Luis (who remembers when this actually was in theory an advisory board
>> ;)
>>
>> I was trying to remember, but... it's been a _long_ time. :)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Matthew Miller
>> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
>> Fedora Project Leader
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