Taking fedora-devel into consideration [Was: Re: tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path]

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:20:25PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
>On 2008-10-09, 12:50 GMT, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Most people (including FESCo members) after those one or two 
>> months will have forgotten most (if not all) of the arguments 
>> from the mailing list discussion; and only some people/FESCo 
>> members will look at the old discussion closer again (we are 
>> all busy and time is very rare);
>
>I thought that I will gladly let this thread die, but this 
>paragraph hit me -- if this the description of reality in FESCo 
>than I know how to vote in the upcoming elections. If you really 
>don't prepare for the decision on the meeting agenda in advance 
>(which would apparently include here checking the thread from the 
>archives of fedora-devel), then you are not doing your job well.  
>
>And I really don't care much how busy you are. If the quality of 
>decision-making process is so bad, than you have probably put too 
>much on your plate, and you should reconsider your involvment in 
>Fedora and possibly scale down somewhere.
>
>I hope that you were making up this scenario just to cheaply 
>destroy my argument, because I would hate if this is the true 
>description of the FESCo decision making process.

I don't think it's really accurate of FESCo today.  I will
concede that during turnover, some of the history is lost in
FESCo in general.  That is only natural as new people come in,
and it's also why we changed the elections to only have 1/2 the
seats up for election at once.

josh