Archive:Board/Possible Future of Fedora Governance

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Project Leader

• Appoint delegates with specific responsibilities
• Make decisions that require "urgent action"
• Make decisions for which no one else has responsibility, attempting to stay in line with contributor consensus
• Propose draft General Resolutions, amendments
• Choose lengths of vote discussion periods (within constitutional limits)
• Lead contributor discussions
• Add/remove organizations from the list of those trusted with the project's assets
• Offer formal advice
• Serve as chair of the Board
• Appointed by Red Hat
• Tally votes
• Publish vote totals after voting is complete
• Adjucate constitutional disputes
• Has the power to override any other group

Fedora Legal Committee (FeLCo)

• Legal spots and decides upon legal matters
• Ultimately authoritative in legal matters
• Has the power to override anyone else with respect to legal issues
• Appointed by Red Hat

Board

* Decide matters of policy
* Duties and responsibilites may be delegated from the Board to other groups by mutual agreement
 - Any group may subdelegate responsibility
 - Cannot override decisions made by delegates within their respective jurisdictions
* Decide on matters where contributors' jurisdictions overlap
* Make decisions within the Board's jurisdiction when asked
* Offer formal advice
* Remove members of itself (according to the Board Succession Plan)
* Makes decisions as a last resort
* Amend the Constitution
* The Project Leader's vote breaks ties
* Chooses its own method of adding and removing members

FESCo

* A committee whose power is delegated by the Board
* Decide matters of technical policy
* Decide on technical matters where contributors' jurisdictions overlap
* Make decisions when asked
* Overrule individual contributor decisions
* Offer formal technical advice
* Appoint or remove members of itself (rules vary depending on

current number of members)

* Appoint a Committee Chair
* Chooses its own method of adding and removing members

FAmSCo

* Mission: Promotes and markets Fedora worldwide
* A committee whose power is delegated by the Board
* Decide matters of community-related policy
* Decide on matters where multiple community groups conflict
* Make decisions when asked
* Overrule individual community groups' decisions
* Offer formal community advice
* Appoint a Committee Chair
* Chooses its own method of adding and removing members

Individual contributors

* Definition of individual contributor: cla_done
* Make autonomous decisions with regards to their own work
* Run for elected office
* Complies with applicable codes of conduct
* Complies with applicable rules and procedures
* Vote in applicable elections