On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 19:03 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote: > Is it me, or has the purpose of FESCo got lost? > > My understanding, FESCo (Fedora Extras Steering Committee) is to steer > issues WRT to the Fedora Distribution [1] (formally the Fedora Extras > Distribution), it makes sense to only allow current packagers as *they* > are the ones that or contributing to the distribution. > > FESCo has typically dealt with issues such as: > * Patent issues > * Package naming > * Static library issues > * Approving changes to packaging guidelines (already agreed to by the > packaging committee) > * Approval of new sponsors (for cvsextras) > > Have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/Schedule > > Fedora Documentation has FDSCo (Fedora Documentation Steering > Committee), which last I checked does not report to FESCo, I believe > they report to the Board, like FESCo (?) > > So no, I'm not sure what advantage there would be to having non > packagers in FESCo, ditto with having non documentation writers in > FDSCo, by all means, attend the meetings, but the casting vote I'm not > sure about. FESCo is taking on new responsibilities due to the merge of Core/Extras. Some of the responsibilities include overseeing: 1. Features 2. Theory of Packaging (Packaging Committee) 3. Practice of Packaging (Old FESCo responsibilities) 4. Release Engineering (rel-eng team) 5. QA For more information, please refer to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-June/msg00022.html Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E
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