"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/28/2010 08:28 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: >> What are you afraid of? > >I think my concerns have been very clear. > >> Fedora is not a country, you don't have to move to get away. All the code is free. Most the code isn't even ours, it belongs to the upstreams. If somebody were to buy RHT, the worse they could do is prevent previous RHT employees from working on it as their day job, turn off the servers and sit on the trademarks. All the code and people can go to a new project name. It would just take a few servers and an uplink to the mirror system, which is not owned by RHT or Fedora. There really isn't any intellectual property around Fedora that isn't open and transparent. Man power may die off, but some arbitrary rule about how many people who might be employed by RHT can serve in decision bodies wouldn't change that at all. >> >> So I ask you again, what are you so afraid of that you think you can fix? > >I'm afraid of what might happen if an individual like you, an key player >within the community suddenly disappears from the face of the planet. > >So let me ask you this who's your backup ( given that you at least have >one within Red Hat ) and can a community member step in you're shoes to >full fill your role in your absence? > Multiple people filled in for me recently when I took leave for the birth of my second son. One project I and others have been working on is documenting the things we do so that others can fill in easily. Not good for job security but good for project longevity. However. At this time I don't sit on any decision making group, so I'm really not sure what a rule that dictates that a "community" person balance my RHT presence. The rel-eng group is free form, anybody who wants to show up and work can. There are no numbered seats or president or anything like that. Just tasks and tickets and people that process them. Should RHT go away and I go away the process documentation remains and anybody can pick it up and run with it. Or they can duplicate it in a differently named project should the Fedora name be no longer usable. -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
