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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
Possible Role of FESCo
- Software in Fedora--"if you affect the distro"
- Features
- 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
- summary of their other ongoing work
- what their current focus areas are
- FESCo will lay out what they want to be responsible for going forward