Fesco membership policies

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 11/14/2011 11:19 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Garrett<mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>  wrote:
>> Something that was brought up at the last fesco meeting is that
>> fesco membership is currently restricted to members of the packaging
>> group. That's arguably overly restrictive - fesco is intended to be the
>> body with technical oversight over the entire project, not merely
>> packaging, and in that situation it seems odd to restrict membership to
>> a subset of the people under fesco's pervue.
>>
>> There's a few things we can do here. We can keep the status quo. We can
>> add new groups such as qa. Or we can open it to the entire project and
>> just assume that the electorate will ensure that nobody inappropriate
>> gets elected.
>>
>> Anyone have opinions on what we should be doing here?
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, is changes to FESCo something that needs to
> be approved by the Board? (adding f-a-b mailing list for
> clarification).
>
> Peter

Multidisciplinary membership is good.  However, please keep a balance in 
that no one group is over represented.

Also, how about a non-technical member from the general user community? 
  Should provide a nice balance to the technical side.


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