ons 2010-11-10 klockan 17:10 +0100 skrev Christoph Wickert: > 1. Fedora EMEA e.V. is being closed down. I know, and is covered by what I said. > 3. Long time contributors like Gerold are stepping down. > 4. Others are not officially stepping down but simply resigning. I > don't want to name any names. > 5. Several Fedora community websites were close down. > 6. We hardly have any community members that are willing to run for > the board or Fesco. > 7. We have nobody to coordinate the elections. > 8. We nearly had no FUDCon in EMEA this year. > 9. Fedora 14 has less features than any other Fedora release. And all the above is by default the error of RedHat? > 10. We have mailing list moderation, threads are getting closed and > users get unsubscribed. If those actions are not warranted by the actions of those users then we have a problem. > 11. We had brilliant community architect in EMEA and his job is > vacant for more than a year now. We are told that somebody new > is to come (at least for 20hrs/week), but so far, nothing has > happened. Replacing someone brilliant is not easy. > 12. We have groups in Fedora (made of of Red Hat employees) that do > not listen to the community and do not even listen to the > (former) FPL. That is a problem if true. > 13. 2 Red Hat employees who never contributed to Fedora were > suddenly given commit access to more than 800 packages without > previous notification to the package owners. Thanks God this was > revoked. Can only account that to human error. > 14. Other package owners got a formal letter from Red Hat that they > had to hand some of their packages over to Red Hat employees as > they were to become part of RHEL6. Yes I heard this, and yes it's somewhat troublesome. > > There is some noticeable friction relating to the Fedora trademark which > > seriously holds back certain aspects of the community, but I doubt the > > last words have been said on that. > > So, what do you expect here? My experience has thought me that if there > is a change, it will not be for the better. Lawyers seldom changes things to the better, but is also not the only ones who have a say. And in this case I do suspect things will need to go worse before other solutions are looked for. But I am still optimistic that situation regarding use of trademark will be noticeably better than today in a couple of years time. Regards Henrik _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
