FESCo future

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

(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?

--g

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> seth vidal schrieb:
>> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:52 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Hmm, all I wanted to avoid is that more than 50% of the members are from
>>> Red Hat as a lot of people won't like that.
>> Let's make sure that there is a mention that if a non-rh member takes a
>> job at rh that they don't lose their seat immediately. Only at the next
>> set of elections will their present employment be taken into account.
>>
>> does that reasonable?
>
> Hmm, that okay for me, but I suspect some people won't like it. I had
> something like the next para in my first local draft, but I threw it out
> before sending it to the list as I thought "not important enough" ;-)
>
> An additional non-rh member is appointed if a non-rh member gets a job
> at rh and due to that less than 50% of the seats would be filled by
> non-rh members.
>
> CU
> thl
>
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