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On 09/06/2013 03:52 PM, Pete Travis
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Precisely
As am I but when an individual has been hired for an job opening that is called "Fedora's QA Community Manager" within Red Hat and he himself calls himself "QA community liaison" then it's pretty evident that Red Hat has decided for us who's supposed to be representing the QA community in something like Josh's proposal on behalf of our QA community. And this is the second time we are given this "special treatment" from Red Hat within our community and to add insult to injury none of our projects liaisons within Red Hat appear to have been aware of this, which means that there's an entity within Red Hat that just runs around creates "community positions" then hires people outside our communities to fill those position and then plants those individuals in our communities without even informing the relevant Fedora people and is expecting them to just walk in there and take charge while the community bends over and accepts that reality. The fact is that we abolished any kind of governing infrastructure within the QA community a while back for two reasons 1) the QA community cant rely on Red Hat employees ( I think I'm going through my third or fourth one now that is supposed to be some kind of leader within the community according to RH ) and 2) it does not really make sense since we are one of the projects service sub-community. We dont even prevent people from implementing their ideas to improve the community. We only share opinions between ourselves on those ideas and depending how good or bad people think they are, people will jump in and help implementing them ( or not ) but in the end of the day it's those individual(s) idea and his/hers/theirs free time to spend implementing it and who's fit to judge how other people spend their own free time. ( I personally am just quite happy and satisfied that people are willing to spend some of their free time in our QA community or in other sub community within our project ). Time will always tell if those ideas and the implementation of them will become a success or failure and it truly would be a shame to lose the opportunity for an idea or an spin off or alternative implementation to turn into something good just because there was an majority within our community that was opposed to the idea and killed it in birth.
In both those cases those individuals where from outside the community and Fedora in general so you can understand my concern in that regard. JBG |
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