[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Re: Infrastructure Officers and team goals

[Mike McGrath]

On 10/6/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:04:25 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 06:22 -0400, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> >
> > > To be consistent with other groups (Docs/Ambassadors, etc) you may want
> > > to have people vote for these positions rather than appointing them.
> > >
> > Not sure about voting.  Ambassadors and FESCo have only started to vote
> > on their positions this past year after having a while to create a sense
> > of what roles the elected body is supposed to perform.  These positions
> > are also different than FESCo and Ambassadors in that it isn't an
> > election of a body of people -- it's an election to individual
> > positions.  This is the difference between elections for the city
> > council and elections for sheriff, treasurer, and mayor.  For these
> > specialized positions you want someone who is familiar with the issues
> > that will be facing them in that job as they will be the go-to person
> > when problems crop up in those areas.
> >
> > Which isn't to say that voters couldn't do a good job of picking people
> > with the right skills and knowledge here either.  But I think we lack
> > one other criteria for good elections: voters.  Currently we only have
> > 31 people listed in the sysadmin groups so it's somewhat silly to hold
> > elections for seven positions at this point.  I think a simple
> > confirmation/discussion will better serve us at this time.
>
> Prior to filling positions with people and titles, it would be better to
> define the obligations, responsibilities, and the work-flow for each of
> these positions.
>
> Like "What exactly does the Build System/Package Manager [X] do? How does he
> differ from other contributors within the Infrastructure Group? What
> do you--i.e. a contributor or person within the Infrastructure Group--need
> him for instead of the list?"   [X] insert other position titles here
>
> Especially for people outside the Infrastructure Group or even outside the
> Fedora Project, such information about the structure of parts of the
> project is important.
>

In this instance I was hoping the people involved would help design
the guidelines for their own roles, for approval of course.

            -Mike