fesco, fpc and epel relationships

[Mike McGrath]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:38:25PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>   
>> To avoid that I'd like to ask FESCo and the Board to clarify the
>> position of the Packaging Committee and its relation to EPEL as well as
>> what Packaging rules get used for EPEL.
>>     
>
> I think setting up mandates and formal relationships between the
> various groups is important. Given that currently most FPC members are
> not really into RHEL, and that in the past whenever a RHEL rule was
> being discussed it was (IMHO wrongly) most often simply dumped,
> because "we are Fedora, not RHEL" the FPC needs to know its current
> responsibilities.
>   
Fedora is more than the operating system.

Fedora = RedHat = Ford
Fedora (OS) = RHEL = Mustang

We aren't the OS, we produce the OS. 

    -Mike