-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/10 8:31 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> When I was a member of the board and we went through a round of >> appointments, all appointment candidates were discussed within the >> board, and I don't recall there being an appointment that did not have >> the full current board approval. That may not be codified in any >> written bylaw, but it seemed to be standard practice, and thus little >> chance of a renegade FPL stuffing the board with yes-people. >> > I think you're missing the point by thinking of them as "yes-people". > I'm not talking about the FPL putting people in that will agree with > everything that they believe but rather certain things that they > believe and are essential to the FPL's vision of Fedora. Think back > to anything that is controversial... let's say updates vision. If the > FPL thinks that Fedora needs to worry more about stability, the FPL > has a wide range of candidates who have weighed in on the question > asking for more stability in Fedora. People who are primarily known > for other work and bring other talents to the table but who have, > because the debate was so wide ranging, made clear where they stand. > Similarly, if the FPL thinks that Fedora needs to stay closer to its > roots, they have a diverse set of candidates to select from as well. My what a paranoid view you have. Also, I rather take offense that you consider a more conservative approach to updates to our stable releases counter to the "roots" of Fedora, particularly when you consider that Fedora is rooted in Red Hat Linux. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxqwfUACgkQ4v2HLvE71NUmKwCeJBwV5c85p6HPILCxSWe6bDqF 6+QAoMMbdQ88ut5f6IabOiJ5JIFtsAyc =77L4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
