FESCo Meeting Summary for 2009-05-22

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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> == FESCo should allow non packagers to be committee members ==
>
> FESCo voted 5-0 (with three abstentions) to not change the current
> requirement that FESCo nominees be part of the packager group. Discussion
> indicated that:
>
>    * technical issues (FPC reports, features) are approved by FESCo

(1) To sit on FESCo good technical chops are important.

>    * membership in packager is not a large hurdle

(2) The requirement of being in the packager group is not a large
hurdle and proves little about a person's technical chops.

>    * there have yet to be anyone who has expressed interest in running that
>    * would need this exception, even in the mail thread that spawned this

(3) No one has yet stepped up and attempted to run for an office he or
she was not eligible to occupy.

(1) + (2) + (3) = current policy makes sense to FESCo?

John