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 _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
