FESCo future
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Nov 27 16:37:14 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:51 -0500, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> (Note: I will be calling this new project "F-star" until someone tells me
> to stop.)
>
> My $0.02 on the structure of the F-star board:
>
> No mandate of RH/non-RH seats. At all. Pure meritocracy.
>
> It's time to put this model to the test. If the packaging community has
> any sense, and I believe they do, then they will elect a healthy number of
> Redhatters to F-star -- because if they don't, it will be *much* more
> difficult to accomplish *anything*. It's in everyone's best interest to
> put Redhatters on the F-star board. I believe that the community
> understands that.
>
> At the same time, if a particular Redhatter becomes a belligerent jackass,
> then the community is fully empowered to boot that Redhatter right the
> hell out of the project. I don't expect this ever to be the case,
> honestly, because I think our community is comprised of grown-ups. But
> the safeguard is important.
>
> Honestly, we've already got strong controls at the Fedora Project Board
> level. If things go terribly wrong with F-Star, the process for
> correction is simple: the Grand Poobah puts a bullet in the whole damned
> thing. The cost of such a failure would be enormous for everyone
> involved, though, and for that reason I suspect that it will never happen.
>
> What are we afraid of?
>
RHLP is what we're afraid of.
If we have learned NOTHING from the goings on at novell and other
companies it is that the winds of corporate power change quite a bit and
it is not always obvious when they do.
-sv
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