Fedora Board election results
Greg Dekoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Wed Jun 25 15:23:01 UTC 2008
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> 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.
Fair enough. I do not read any such implication. And yes, it's easy to
be defensive. :)
> "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.
I guess this is the key question, and one that we need to answer as
honestly as we can:
If Red Hat tries to force a *bad* decision down the throats of the Fedora
community, what is the ability of the Fedora board, as a body, to resist
that decision? I like to think it's pretty strong. Am I fooling myself?
--g
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