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
• 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