> > It has been a pleasure for me to be a part of and help lead the > > EPEL steering committee for the last couple of years. It has not > > always been smooth sailing but I have found it an enjoyable experience. > > > > However, as you may know the Fedora project will be moving to a > > different data-center later this spring (from Phoenix to northern > > Virginia). Being involved in the planning and implementation of this > > project, I do not think that I will be able to give EPEL the time > > investment it deserve for the next 6 to 9 months. With EPEL-8 still > > ramping up and the various opportunities with modularity, I do > > not think it is a fair that EPEL suffers from this lack of time. > > > > As such, I would like to step down as chair/member of the steering > > committee and nominate Troy Dawson as my replacement. Troy formerly > > worked on Scientific Linux and has worked on OpenShift and other > > projects at Red Hat for the last several years. It is clear he has a > > good eye on the concerns and problems enterprise users have. Recently, > > Troy helped get the initial RHEL-8 and EPEL-8 out the door with > > multiple builds and updates to various macro files. > > > > Once the move is completed and the close down of the old site is done, > > I look forward to getting involved again in EPEL. > > Based on this, I'm not so sure that Troy is the best person to take that place > within EPEL's Steering Committee. As an enterprise admin, RHEL8 has been > nothing but a nightmare to deal with because of Modularity. I know Troy didn't > singlehandedly sign off on that nonsense, but, as he is a member of the > Modularity team, this is not a good sign for what's to come. I disagree, opinions of the state of modularity should not have anything to do with the decision of someone leading a steering committee. The technical solution to a problem which is completely off topic and out of control of this group is a completely different role to leading a group. For the later I feel Troy is an excellent choice. As for the former it's the job of the whole steering committee, not an individual, to decide the direction of something like EPEL and how to make it work/interact with modularity but having someone that knows something like what modularity involves can only help make the RHEL modularity team aware of the issues that an important project, such as EPEL, is having with it in order to improve it for the community can not be overstated. While it's perfectly within your right to make statements like this doing so without suggesting a suitable alternative I feel is inappropriate. It's all too easy to throw stones from the fence. If you feel so strongly about it maybe you could step up to work on the steering committee to ensure that EPEL-8 is a success in spite of modularity. I'm sure there's more than enough room for both of you and I'm sure Troy would welcome the extra people! Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
