governance, fesco, board, etc.

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 06:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Reality check - What has changed with the merger?

Reality check - it's been a little over a month.  It takes work to get
to a final solution.

> * Before: Core packages were maintained by @RH 
>   Now: With very few exceptions, Core packages are maintained by @RH

This will grow.

> * Before: FE was open, everybody could fix other packages.
>   Now: ACLs are in effect.

ACLs can be removed if the maintainer wishes to make the packages fully
open again.

> * Before: Fedora consisted of free-OSS packages.
>   Now: Non-free packages have been introduced.

By this do you mean firmware, or something else?

> * Before: Fedora was controlled by FAB and FESCO
>   Now: Fedora is still controlled by FAB and FESCO.
> * Before: Core+Extras was released by RH's rel-eng
>   Now: Core+Extras was released by a rel-eng.

No.  Before: Core was released by RH's rel-eng.  They didn't touch
Extras.

> * Before: FE had a functional work-flow, functional simple reviews,
>   functional bugzilla, some bureaucracy, non-functional QA.
>   Now: koji, bodhi, flagged-reviews, broken bugzilla, more bureaucracy,
>   still non-functional QA.

I've seen you say this.  I think I have seen other contributors agree
with some of those points.  We're addressing them as fast as we can.

josh