Fedora Board election results

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Jun 25 16:56:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:24:36 -0400 (EDT), Max Spevack wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > "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.
> 
> FWIW, if I had $1 for every time in the last 2.5 years I told someone 
> *inside* Red Hat:
> 
> "You can't do $FOO in Fedora without first getting the permission of the 
> Fedora Board.  Asking me is not enough.  The Fedora Board is Fedora's 
> executive team.  I can tell you what I think, but I don't make the 
> decisions all by myself."
> 
> then I would be living on the beach somewhere and the only emails I 
> would send would be to my banker in Zurich.

That doesn't contradict what I described above. And in the opposite
direction, Fedora depends on Red Hat, too.




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