Fedora Board election results

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:34:37 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 16:07 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:46:48 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > 
> > > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:13 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> You've put forth several very strong assertions about how Red Hat 
> > > >> controls all decisions and that community input is meaningless.
> > > > 
> > > > Where?
> > > 
> > > Several places, among them previous in this thread: "I think almost all 
> > > decisions come out of Red Hat"
> > 
> > And that is equal to "Red Hat _controls all_ decisions and community
> > input is _meaningless_"? Wow!
> 
> Perhaps not the latter part, but the statement does imply that Red Hat
> controls all the decisions.

"almost all" is not "all", so much for sure. And what part of my mails
leads to the conclusion that "community input is meaningless" is a
mystery to me.

> This might be a case of native English vs. non-native English here.  If
> you didn't mean that Red Hat controls the decisions with your statement,
> what exactly did you mean by "...come out of Red Hat"?

"To come out of Red Hat" means it is something that is based on prior work
within Red Hat or something with a dependency on Red Hat. Add to that
proposals, ideas, plans, restructuring, results from hall-way discussions,
results from internal meetings, requests from internal departments, things
that are set in stone already and just wait for FPB to give the obligatory
+1. Nowhere, and pay attention now please, _nowhere_ did I imply that the
decisions that come out of Red Hat would be bad.