Fedora Board Recap 2008-JUN-24

[Christopher Aillon]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> The notes indicate the Board's awareness of how the changes are being
>> made, not that it is dictating these changes, so these notes and the
>> policy of having FESCo be responsible for engineering issues are not
>> really in conflict.
> 
> I would argue that Codeina itself is a technical detail and shouldn't be 
> managed by the board anymore which has discussed it in half a dozen 
> meetings already. There are several other things that deserve more 
> attention that this particular feature. Board can just make a policy 
> decision on where it draws the line on free software and leave it at that.

It's not managed by the Board.  In fact, this is the complete opposite. 
  In the past the Board more or less mandated what the codec story would 
be and people would implement it, for better or worse (worse mostly). 
Now, the Board is letting the technical people dictate the story, and 
just watching to make sure it doesn't stray from the path.