On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Josh Boyer (jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx) said: >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm curious as to what people think. I'm putting this out there as a >> > discussion starter. Hopefully the discussion it generates is positive >> > and thought provoking. >> >> So, I was serious when I said the above. I mean, I figured maybe >> comments would be light on Friday, but it's been 3 days and only two >> people have made any comments at all (thank you). None of the Board >> members have said anything. >> >> Or have I done the impossible? Have I proposed something that is >> either universally agreeable or universally hated? Seems unlikely. > > The suggested composition of representatives from existing groups that all > have their own 'day jobs' in Fedora seems like an organization model that > optimizes for better focus around 'doing the things that we are doing', as > opposed to 'doing new things that we aren't doing'. It's a definite possibility, yes. One would hope the FPL and the group on the Board would be cognizant of this though. > This is neither good nor bad - it's just a choice. Is there an idea that > something like the move to the multiple products that Matt Miller is > proposing would be more or less likely to come from this new sort of > organization? Frankly, I think "new things that we aren't doing" very very rarely come from on high. It's just not a model that the Fedora project itself follows. The new stuff comes from those doing the work, and at times from the fringe. I cannot think of a time where the Board came down and said "we should be doing this, go do it". I've always viewed the Board as more of a checkpoint on the bigger picture for a new thing rather than an originator of it. Does NewThing meet with the Fedora goals, does NewThing seem worthwhile, etc. josh _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
