On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:34, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:09:47AM -0700, John Poelstra wrote: >> Toshio Kuratomi said the following on 08/13/2010 01:48 PM Pacific Time: > > What's the common thread in these? Here's my subjective "History of Fedora > Governance". I feel that at the start of Fedora, there was a cabal of > engineers working on getting things done so that we could have > a distribution. This became formalized into FESCo which we see now. In I thought it was a bunch of engineers who were used to working on an OS they could throw away after 3-4 releases to go do something new being told that instead they would have to support anything they wrote for 7-10 years.. and the company realizing that the ADHD medicine costs would wipe out any profits.. However I was many states away in a vault at the time so my knowledge is less clear. > > These examples all have the Fedora Project Board crossing over from > restricting itself to decisions about the Project as a whole into making > decisions about the Fedora Distribution. The problem I see is that for many situations there is little difference between the two. While the Board is something like a People Engineering Steering Committee it is hard to separate Distribution from People at times. And without a formal charter of where things line, both groups spend a lot of time throwing issues back and forth because they don't feel its their ball but the other guys. [Even with a formal charter this will happen.. just look at how every government throws stuff from Legislative to Executive to Judicial and back again.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
