Fedora Board election results

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> Perhaps not the latter part, but the statement does imply that Red Hat
>> controls all the decisions.
>
> "almost all" is not "all", so much for sure. And what part of my mails
> leads to the conclusion that "community input is meaningless" is a
> mystery to me.

Fair enough.  I do not read any such implication.  And yes, it's easy to 
be defensive.  :)

> "To come out of Red Hat" means it is something that is based on prior 
> work within Red Hat or something with a dependency on Red Hat. Add to 
> that proposals, ideas, plans, restructuring, results from hall-way 
> discussions, results from internal meetings, requests from internal 
> departments, things that are set in stone already and just wait for FPB 
> to give the obligatory +1. Nowhere, and pay attention now please, 
> _nowhere_ did I imply that the decisions that come out of Red Hat would 
> be bad.

I guess this is the key question, and one that we need to answer as 
honestly as we can:

If Red Hat tries to force a *bad* decision down the throats of the Fedora 
community, what is the ability of the Fedora board, as a body, to resist 
that decision?  I like to think it's pretty strong.  Am I fooling myself?

--g