@FESCO: EPEL Steering Committee's mandate is expiring -- how to move on?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday 28 August 2007 1:35:20 pm Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 28.08.2007 05:57, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 15:42 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >> So if you are a EPEL contributor: what do you want? Do you want to elect
> >> a EPEL Steering Committee? Do you want a bigger or a smaller one? Do you
> >> want to get rid of it?
> >
> > I'll let my man Chuck D
>
> /me had to visit wikipedia at this point
>
> > speak for me:
> > "Power to the people with no delay."
> >
> > Fedora is evolving, and where?  Steering committees don't seem fit the
> > need like they did before.
>
> Agreed, but now and then they (or something like a Steering Committee)
> are still needed afaics. Especially in EPEL we need some group to send a
> "This is the direction" signal, as some people want a "Stable EPEL, with
> a update style similar t othe one from RHEL" while others want a "Extras
> like, always rolling, always new and shiny" style. Mixing the two models
> would afaics the worst, so someone needs to pick the site, even if some
> people feel pissed of.

right now you get extras type rolling release by enabling testing and stable 
by not.  both are covered just fine :)

at least this is my take on it 

Dennis