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What this is
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