On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Conflict of interests. If the high level group becomes too invested in what > is happening to a single product that we are making, then the decisions that > the group makes becomes colored by that focus. The SIGs that produce spins > should be defining a target audience but for the Project to be defining > a target audience is detrimental to embracing contributors who have > a different vision. You seem to be ruling out the possibility that there could be agreement on this target audience. > The high level group needs to be able to make decisions > that negatively impact the default distro offering if it helps empower more > contributors to work on the areas they want to see flourish. What kind of negative decisions? > I disagree with this idea of the Fedora Board's role. I believe that > vision for the Fedora Distributions should come from the people who are > presently creating those distributions. Again, I don't think it makes sense to preclude common agreement on goals. And I think that's what the board needs to be doing *as a participatory* thing. It's not like the Board is going to inscribe rules on stone tablets and hand them down to everyone with a FAS account. The goal should be to define a target that we can agree on, and work on meeting that target using rough consensus and working code. > My question would be -- why is it the Board's purview to decide what the "Gnome > desktop"'s target audience should be? Shouldn't that be up to the SIG that > creates the spin? A general purpose desktop image consumable is very important for the project as a whole; I don't have any metrics to back this up, but I'm sure it's what most of the people using the project now want. Backing up a bit - this discussion is quite abstract. Let me ask a distilled question - do you see it as a fundamental problem if the Board works to define a target audience at all? Or you just don't like the proposed definition work so far? _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
