FESCo Meeting Summary for 2009-05-22

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri May 22 19:53:45 UTC 2009


inode0 (inode0 at gmail.com) said: 
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > == FESCo should allow non packagers to be committee members ==
> >
> > FESCo voted 5-0 (with three abstentions) to not change the current
> > requirement that FESCo nominees be part of the packager group. Discussion
> > indicated that:
> >
> >    * technical issues (FPC reports, features) are approved by FESCo
> 
> (1) To sit on FESCo good technical chops are important.
> 
> >    * membership in packager is not a large hurdle
> 
> (2) The requirement of being in the packager group is not a large
> hurdle and proves little about a person's technical chops.
> 
> >    * there have yet to be anyone who has expressed interest in running that
> >    * would need this exception, even in the mail thread that spawned this
> 
> (3) No one has yet stepped up and attempted to run for an office he or
> she was not eligible to occupy.
> 
> (1) + (2) + (3) = current policy makes sense to FESCo?

More that if you have the technical chops re (1) then (2) is not
a significant additional hurdle.

Bill




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