What next?

[Michael Tiemann]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 04:07 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:43:02PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:42 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > As an aside, perhaps the FESCO meeting agendas/minutes should be
> > > publicly available somewhere.  Then people who want to volunteer for
> > > stuff like that would have a place to look.  At the very least, it
> > > provides the community with an idea of what's happening and where things
> > > are headed.
> > 
> > Yes, they should.  This is partially my fault as I started writing up
> > reasonable minutes and then never posted them anywhere.  I can't promise
> > a change for this week as I may not be able to make the FESCO meeting
> > due to real life concerns, but for next week, I will _commit_ to making
> > them available to the world at large.  At least by mailing to
> > fedora-extras-list and I'll also try to get them so they can at least be
> > linked from fedora.redhat.com.
> 
>   Thanks, this is a painful routine, but from my experience as Gnome secretary
> it's important for the community and it's better to have not perfect minutes
> delivered quickly after the meeting than perfect minutes posted 3 weeks
> later (when faced with "I should finish the minutes and post them when I have
> more time" I would suggest to just post them as is, then the worse which can
> happen is that people will ask more question and raise awareness :-)

+1

<governance>
The reason that most board agendas begin with "approval of the minutes
from the last meeting" is specifically so that minutes can be
distributed quickly and corrected later if there's a problem.  Buffering
minutes to get them right leads to more trouble than it's worth.
</governance>

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