Fedora Board Recap 2009-12-17 UTC 1700

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-12-17
>
> == Roll Call ==
> * '''Present:''' Paul Frields, Christopher Aillon, Josh Boyer, Dimitris Glezos, Bill Nottingham, John Poelstra, Jon McCann, Tom "spot" Callaway, Matt Domsch, Mike McGrath, Dennis Gilmore
>
> == Last meeting ==
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_meeting_2009-12-10
>
> == Updates/Installs presentation ==
> * William Jon McCann -- https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JonMccann
> * Co-presenter: Christopher Aillon
> ** pointed back to whiteboard link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/UpdateExperience with new added "Impact" section with information from stakeholders
> ** document doesn't present implementation, but records opinions garnered from current contributors and stakeholders
> * General Board consensus is that we do need to establish criteria for updates, and empower FESCo to enforce them
> * Lots of spirited discussion around various details of the proposal, with conversation that covered a lot of different issues but the Board is not ready to issue hard guidance yet
> ** Unclear to what extent current pending changes (NFR, AutoQA) will impact any Fedora user's update experience, or how these changes are currently incorporated in the whiteboard
> ** The whiteboard correctly identifies several problems but it's not clear that it completely lists root causes

Why was the above discussion brought to the board anyone? Instead of 
fesco?

-sv