On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:07:37AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 05/21/2009 08:44 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:08:58PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 05/21/2009 08:58 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 20:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>>>> IMO, it made sense only during the time when it was a steering committee >>>>> for the Fedora Extras repository. Now FESCo duties are broad and I don't >>>>> see why someone only involved with artwork, L10N or documentation but >>>>> not packaging shouldn't be a leader. >>>> That would make sense if they were making decisions and guidance over >>>> those groups, only I don't think they are. >>> FESCo has grown from being a group concerned only about packages in a >>> add-on repository into something much larger. FESCo is responsible for >>> all technical decisions in Fedora including those that affect these groups. >> >> Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but what technical decisions effect artwork >> or translations or the management of documentation? >> >> I cannot remember ever dealing with anything involving artwork in my entire >> tenure in FESCo. Documentation is impacted from a content point of view, but >> they have their own committee and aside from the Feature stuff FESCo doesn't >> really have any direct impact on them. Similarly for translation. >> > > Why, just last week! :-) > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/142 > > which was discussed in: > > http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2009-05-15.html > > I'll note that FESCo left the decision to mizmo and ianweller as > representatives of the art and website teams. But FESCo didn't say that > they didn't have jurisdiction here... FESCo assumed it had the authority > to play mediator in the dispute. This relationship seems to be pretty > close to the FESCo <=> FPC relationship where the FPC is largely > autonomous but definitely comes under the wings of FESCo. OK, so odd example, but yes I guess that does have some impact to the website team. I know that when I was reviewing that, I was looking at it from the technical standpoint of 'should we be preferring x86_64 for installs' and not from an asthetic point of view. That is perhaps weasely, but true. See how my brain works? "Evaluate the technical aspects, leave the non-technical stuff to people that know and care about it." josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
