I'm stepping down from EPEL's Steering Committee. As a replacement I recommend one of the following top five packagers in EPEL: steve silug org matthias rpmforge net rdieter math unl edu orion cora nwra com chris stone gmail com EPEL's Steering Committee has a bad balance between deciders and doers, therefore I suggest to try to get more packaging folks into the game. Maybe that would bring back some things back to balance. The reasons for stepping down are the following: o Personal conflicts with Thorsten Leemhuis. Not much needs to be explained about this, whoever followed a couple of discussions will understand that Thorsten and I are not working well together. Many of the following issues are about where Thorsten is steering EPEL to. o Disapproving EPEL's course I cannot stand for EPEL anymore, not within the project and even more not representing it to the outside. Since people outside EPEL think of me as a bridge between 3rd parties and EPEL I get the load of requests that I by now know I cannot push through into EPEL. o Conflict of interests between EPEL and ATrpms (or successor) Given that I identify myself as primarily a non-EPEL third party contributor (ATrpms), and that cooperation requests like the repotag issue bounced off that ugly on EPEL, I can't fight myself, just as I don't want to fight other established third party repos and RHEL clones. The repotag aftermath alone costed me far too much manpower and things are still in need of further work. o Conflict of interests between EPEL and FPC As the single overlap member between EPEL and FPC I was considered to mediate between the two groups, but I was found myself more often in the position of having to defend FPC from Thorsten's passing on unpleasant EPEL matters to the FPC. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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