Fedora Board Recap 2009-12-17 UTC 1700

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 05:17:51PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
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> >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 ==
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> >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
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> Why was the above discussion brought to the board anyone? Instead of
> fesco?

I invited Jon to talk about this at the meeting, because what he and
Board member Christopher Aillon presented at FUDCon was fairly broad
and affects quite a lot of Fedora.  Some of the symptoms set out in
the whiteboard have significant effects on contribution to Fedora
overall, and that's something in which the Board is keenly interested
by definition.

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