Michael Schwendt schrieb: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:40:36 +0200, Christian.Iseli@xxxxxxxx wrote: >> Just an idea: why not have elections when at least 2-3 non FESCo members >> express interest into becoming FESCo members ? > This approaches "the problem" from the wrong side. First of all, there > should be no need "to be in FESCo" to get something done. Strongly agreed. > [...] > Second, if current members of FESCo are working on something which takes > some time (also longer non-public I try to keep most stuff of public lists. > and possibly controversial discussions), > it would be a disruptive action to let the community decide on whom to > replace at an unfortunate point of time. Agreed. > Third, in a project of volunteers, there is no command hierarchy, so for > many "tasks" or policies FESCo needs to meet the community's requirements > and pick up ideas/input from the community anyway. Wrong decisions coming > out of FESCo could lead to uproar, unhappy contributors. It doesn't help > if FESCo consists of people with the wrong focus, who are elected with the > help of lobbyism or by nature of a bigger target-group among the > contributors. Agreed. > Why don't you come up with explanations on how FESCo works and what we > need FESCo for? Why don't you come up with explanations? You were in FESCo for long, you know Fedora Extras in deep and how things work. BTW, I agree that we need explanations, but I think we have more important things to do than working on self-organization/documentation ATM so I put other things higher on my the ToDo-List. But if others think differently: go for it! [..] > And how exactly does FESCo > work in conjunction with the the Packaging Committee (or whatever it is > called officially)? [...] This was initially discussed in the last meeting. CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list