On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > * In the Max Spevack era, the Board was pushed away from making > decisions for two reasons: 1) FESCo was deemed to be the body that > understood the technical issues at hand and therefore the body that > should make most of the decisions regarding Fedora. Context is important: I spent a lot of time as FPL being very concerned about the role of FESCo, and trying very hard to make sure that folks who had been doing a ton of heavy lifting and decision making in Fedora *prior* to the setup of the Board felt like they, their opinions, and their contributions were valued and respected, especially with the merge of Core and Extras. I wanted to make sure that the folks who had built and managed Fedora Extras so successfully were still leaders in the technical discussions happening in Fedora. Thus, s/Extras/Engineering in the term FESCo, and a period of re-discovering what that actually meant. But the *mandate* was always there, IMHO. --Max _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
