Meeting:Board meeting 2008-06-09

Fedora Project Board & FESCo Meeting :: Monday 2008-06-09

• Attendees: Seth Vidal, Dennis Gilmore, Chris Aillon, Spot, Bill Nottingham, Karsten Wade, Jeff Spaleta, Matt Domsch, Máirín Duffy, Paul Frields, Jesse Keating, Jason Tibbits, Jeremy Katz, Josh Boyer, Christian Iseli.

Background

• Both boards met in a joint session to discuss the future of FESCo
• Meeting called as a result of FESCo's query to the board as to what its purpose is
• History on feature process and FESCo: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-June/msg00022.html

Proposed Approach

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Drafts/Roles

Possible Role of FESCo

1. Software in Fedora--"if you affect the distro"
2. Features
3. Oversight of SIGs

• No common agreement on this

SIGS

• Example of a SIG: KDE, Robotics, Astronomy, Python, $LANG
• Not a SIG: Artwork, Ambassadors, Infrastructure
• No Governance Model
• Outreach-Oriented Groups
• Nuts & Bolts Tech-Oriented

Meeting Outcome

Fedora Board Actions

• The board has not changed its stance that FESCo owns the feature process
• The board will meet to determine the other things that FESCo should be responsible for
• The board define roles that it has for FESCo going forward

FESCo Actions

• FESCo to provide the following to the Fedora Board

1. summary of their other ongoing work
2. what their current focus areas are

• FESCo will lay out what they want to be responsible for going forward