Hi all! The goal is to do most work to organize EPEL (aka "keep EPEL running and improve it in the long run") on the list and just a bit the meetings; there is also the EPEL mantra "Power to the people with no delay." and "make Steering Committee nearly unimportant" -- those mean in other words: if you want to improve/realize something in EPEL you don't need to be part of the steering committee to realize it; just post to the list, ask for options, act in the open and if you got positive feedback and if nobody yells after a few days consider your plans kind of accepted normally.
But EPEL has a steering committee and needs one if it comes to "somebody needs to do a decision how to move forward" situations. The goal was to have seven members in the EPEL Steering Committee, but for some months we were only six: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/SteeringCommittee Another member from the Steering committee plans to leave sooner or later (likely sooner afaics). That means we have two vacant seats now that we should fill. We could do a election for these seats or even do a real Steering Committee election like FESCo does, but I think the number of people that want to join the Steering committee is quite small and the overhead of a election is not worth the trouble. Thus I'd suggest: if you want to be part of the EPEL steering committee then please self-nominate (either a reply in private or on the list; or join the meeting tomorrow). Then we form a new steering committee out of the existing members and those that self-nominated. If the total number of people in the Committee is a bit bigger then 7 in the end we just live with it if that's fine for everybody. Same if it's a bit smaller (like it's now). How much work is it to be on the Steering Committee? Well, the answer depends on the fact how good you'd like to do the job. But here are some of the things that Steering Committee members IMHO should do: - make sure EPEL most contributers and users are happy - make sure EPEL runs well - try to improve EPEL in the long run - do do the above you should try to join the meetings now and then and participate in the discussions on the list Cu knurd _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
