Who's moderating this forum?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 13:13 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: 
> The prerequisite is that Red Hat employees have some common sense
> themselves... Of course, we all know that Fedora being an entity
> completely separate from Red Hat is just a figment of the imagination.
> Fedora's constitution -- whose link should appear on the welcome page
> but is very hard to find: I can't at the moment -- says that a
> majority of the board members, including the Project Leader, should be
> from Red Hat. 

Normally I wouldn't have spent time on this conversation but it's
important that people know the above is not entirely true.  The Board's
information is located in a searchable and easily found place:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board

The Fedora Project Leader is a Red Hat employee, that much is true.
There are *no* requirements that a majority of Board members be from Red
Hat.  Five seats on the Board are elected by the community at large, and
four seats are appointed by the FPL.  In past cycles, the community has
elected both Red Hat employees and volunteers to Board seats, and the
FPL has appointed both Red Hat employees and volunteers to Board seats.

> So Red Hat can steer Fedora any way it wants, and that's OK to me. So,
> why do we have silly bashing here as if it was a Debian list? Why
> can't we discuss real things with respect, not only technical, but on
> the organizational level?

Since your premise is false it's hard to follow the logic here.  But we
do discuss plenty of topics with respect here and elsewhere in Fedora
lists, and welcome others who do likewise.

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