On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:51 PM Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:57:36PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:53 PM Randy Barlow > > > > Downside is that it would be possible (though I'd guess unlikely) for > > > all of FESCo to suddenly change to 9 different people and there'd be no > > > members who know the current state of things. We would also need to do > > > something a little awkward to get into this state since we currently > > > have staggered terms. > > > > The election structure was setup specifically to avoid this problem. > > The alternative solutions were all pretty poor. > > This seems to be a very theoretical problem because it would mean that > we have nine times the number of new candidates that we have now and > everyone is so unsatisfied with FESCo that only new candidates will be > elected. And if there is so deep dissatisfaction, a fresh start might > even be a good idea. Also there would still be other people around to > provide guidance or there is another problem. It was a solution to a practical problem when we came up with it. Fedora was young, core and extras had just merged. People were excited about guiding Fedora at a technical level. We needed the structure to ensure we didn't have massive swings in direction on technologies and sufficient transfer of knowledge. The overall number of contributors was smaller, but the interest level was greater. I'm not against reworking the election schedule or terms, but it's good to know why something was put in place before you change it. Dismissing it as theoretical does nothing but make me feel old, which is OK because I am. I'm not convinced a change in the election structure or term limits is really going to drum up interest in FESCo though. The problems we face there are more fundamental than that. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/FVVGNO3IRJ5ZU7FTUIW6VIZYPLLHWQVH/
