FESCo election nominations now open

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu May 21 16:41:22 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:07:37AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On 05/21/2009 08:44 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:08:58PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> On 05/21/2009 08:58 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>> IMO, it made sense only during the time when it was a steering committee
>>>>> for the Fedora Extras repository. Now FESCo duties are broad and I don't
>>>>> see why someone only involved with artwork, L10N or documentation but
>>>>> not packaging shouldn't be a leader.
>>>> That would make sense if they were making decisions and guidance over
>>>> those groups, only I don't think they are.
>>> FESCo has grown from being a group concerned only about packages in a
>>> add-on repository into something much larger. FESCo is responsible for
>>> all technical decisions in Fedora including those that affect these groups.
>>
>> Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but what technical decisions effect artwork
>> or translations or the management of documentation?
>>
>> I cannot remember ever dealing with anything involving artwork in my entire
>> tenure in FESCo.  Documentation is impacted from a content point of view, but
>> they have their own committee and aside from the Feature stuff FESCo doesn't
>> really have any direct impact on them.  Similarly for translation.
>>
>
> Why, just last week! :-)
> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/142
>
> which was discussed in:
>
> http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2009-05-15.html
>
> I'll note that FESCo left the decision to mizmo and ianweller as  
> representatives of the art and website teams.  But FESCo didn't say that  
> they didn't have jurisdiction here... FESCo assumed it had the authority  
> to play mediator in the dispute.  This relationship seems to be pretty  
> close to the FESCo <=> FPC relationship where the FPC is largely  
> autonomous but definitely comes under the wings of FESCo.

OK, so odd example, but yes I guess that does have some impact to the website
team.  I know that when I was reviewing that, I was looking at it from the
technical standpoint of 'should we be preferring x86_64 for installs' and not
from an asthetic point of view.  That is perhaps weasely, but true.

See how my brain works?  "Evaluate the technical aspects, leave the
non-technical stuff to people that know and care about it."

josh




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