Thank you for your response helping me understand a little more about FESCo. The response to me indicates almost everything I thought the board did is done by FESCo. I am told FESCo decides what goes into a release and what does not. I am guessing there is a legal department, is this the Redhat legal department, that decides legal issues. I am guessing the board won't (or can't) reject a Redhat legal department opinion. What exactly does the board do? Is the board a public relations group that handles relations with users, other companies, outsiders? Looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#Responsibilities doesn't help me. What is this about http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#Strategic_Philosophy if FESCo decides what is in the release and what is not in the release? Does the board have its own set of developers who create strategic packages or something? Perhaps we need FESCo doing what it does, a public relations group for users and outsiders, a group that handles user complaints if the user has difficulty going through bugzilla, and a group that does strategic thinking? What strategic thinking has the board done in the past, by way of examples, so one can understand what strategic thinking might be expected in the future? I am guessing the board has a great deal of independence from Redhat, but could be wrong. What is the relationship between Redhat and the board, between Redhat and Fedora? It wouldn't concern me to learn Redhat pulls the strings behind the curtain for Fedora. What matters to me is Fedora meeting my needs as a user. It's fine with me if I learn the board is little more than a secretarial function handling tactical details. I knew companies that were run by the CEO's secretary leaving the CEO to do strategic planning. Someone has to be strategic and someone has to be tactical and take care of details. I knew a company with divisions where the secretary within a particular division actually did have greater signature authority than the head of the division. It's not clear, to me, as a user, how these changes will affect users. Should I be worried? -Rick _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
