governance, fesco, board, etc.

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:33:33AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > So in short: The board gives the direction and fesco brings you there.
> 
> Well, FExtraSCo also was meant to be a counterpart/weight to RH and
> representation of the community against RH. It being democratically
> elected was meant to emphasize its importance and to provide the
> community with means to identify with FESCo, and thereby provide better
> acceptance with their decisions.

But you have the same in the board itself, one part is nominated and
one part elected. RH always has the last word, but is using it
benevolently. This wasn't different in previous models - fesco could
do as it pleased as long as it stayed in the given framework of the
Fedora mandate/goals which were decided by the board. Same will be
true for the future fesco.

If you like, you could consider that some part of the fesco
non-technical powers it once had have been elevated to the board, and
vice versa the board dropped micro-managing into engineering related
questions. Since you get to vote part of the board the community has
not lost any powers.

> As such I find a democratically FESCo superfluous, because such tasks
> are better performed by technical committees populated with dedicated
> specialists. FESCo isn't such an entity.

Well, I think there is some little truth in the part that electing two
organs may not be really sane, especially if one is above the
other. But it will be done nonetheless to preserve tradition,
installed legacy and the current community feeling.

Maybe one day we'll be only voting a board which will be assigning
fesco members. But that would assume that the board has become as
community-popular as fesco, which can be considered one of the board's
main goal. In fact community is one of the most important board
topics.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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