On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Haïkel <hguemar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > to be short, board-discuss is indeed a public list but it's still > rather confidential. I may be wrong, but I expect more reactions when > it'll be posted on announce or high-level traffic lists. Not sure where to jump in here but this seems as good a spot as any. I agree with Haïkel that there is likely to be a much more vigorous engagement with the community when whatever we decide to do gets announced widely. I don't think very many people pay attention to this list and many who I know are interested don't have the stamina to monitor discussions like this very closely over time. I have a couple of comments about the specific proposal that I'll just drop in here too. * Regarding the Diversity Advisor, it is a bit hard to comment without knowing anything specific about who would fill this role but assuming it is a diversity specialist of some sort I do not think that role should be a voting member of this body but am fine with it being an advisory member where things the body is considering impact diversity issues. * Regarding the general composition of this body I see this resulting habitually in a body almost entirely composed of Red Hat employees with the possibility of one or two contributors who don't work full time on Fedora participating. While this likely has some practical benefits furthering the goals of the project it feels to me like an admission of defeat in the big picture. I already hear "Why would I contribute to Fedora, that is like working for Red Hat for free?" and I fear the message this structure will send to potential contributors will reinforce that feeling making it even harder for us to develop a community around this project. Perhaps getting more exciting stuff done will create a more interesting place to contribute too. So I'm not totally negative about this but I am not a big fan at this point either. John _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
