Fedora Governance Proposal

2014-10-06 Thread inode0
As I hope most of you have heard by now the Fedora Board and many community members have been discussing changes to the Fedora governance model at its highest level. I think it is fair for me to say the primary motivation in doing this is to create a system of governance that includes a much more

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Fedora's Foundations: “Freedom, Friends, Features, First, particularly in relation to some very sticky questions about where certain things fit (such as third-party

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/21/2014 11:56 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:36:55AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: ...I'd like to suggest a fifth Foundation, one to ultimately supersede all the rest: Functional.

Re: The Forgotten F: A Tale of Fedora's Foundations

2014-04-21 Thread inode0
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: To boil it down: Is the Freedom Foundation too strict? (Alternately, are we reading it too strictly?) In other words, is our hard-line on only displaying FOSS solutions ultimately accomplishing our Mission to

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-30 Thread inode0
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: So let's not start by putting too much sacred value on the term Spin. Rather, let's think about what specific technical and community-building problems are caused by using Remixes, how to solve them, and then consider

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-29 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:57 PM, H. Guémar hgue...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi, I think we should keep spins as long as we don't have a formal process to accept new products. Something like = proposal = crop (aka product-to-be) = validation = product When we'll have that, drop the whole

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-29 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:57 PM, H. Guémar hgue...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Hi, I think we should keep spins as long as we don't have a formal process

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-29 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: So I am being pulled in both directions on this. One of the goals of agility is to facilitate more things being made from Fedora (at least

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-29 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apologies for the slightly alarmist $SUBJECT, but I want to make sure that this gets read by the

Re: Fedora.NEXT Products and the fate of Spins

2014-01-29 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 January 2014 15:49, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: Putting on my rel-eng hat I can say that any spin that fails to compose will be dropped. I

Re: [Ambassadors] Ambassadors places in new Working Groups

2013-10-27 Thread inode0
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Nobrakal nobra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the double-post, but I think it's necessary. Recently, some Working Groups has been created [1]. In the most of case (except in the Server WG with Truong Anh. Tuan), we don't have any representant of the

Re: Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

2013-10-24 Thread inode0
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 19:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: It is up to each WG to determine their product requirements. That includes which architectures and target users they are trying to produce a product for. We've

Re: A fresh idea (was: fedmsg for voting?)

2013-09-12 Thread inode0
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Ralph Bean rb...@redhat.com wrote: A fresh idea came up in #fedora-apps: What if we nix fedmsg for voting all together, but we supply a link in each election page: Claim the badge for voting that you can click to, well, get the badge. This way no tracking

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-12 Thread inode0
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Ralph Bean rb...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:23:44PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On Sep 11, 2013 6:02 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: What if we made this like the I voted stickers -- you can get one by checking a box in

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-11 Thread inode0
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Eric H. Christensen spa...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:50:58PM -0500, inode0 wrote: No. In what election where the votes cast are secret is the fact of voting public? I can't recall ever participating in such an election but maybe my

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Ralph Bean rb...@redhat.com wrote: A question has come up in #fedora-apps as to whether or not we should publish fedmsg messages for voting. In particular, we're looking now at the new nuancier webapp[0] that will be used to vote on supplemental wallpapers.

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:24:28PM -0500, inode0 wrote: What is under question is that it publishes a message for each set of votes cast by users[3]. It includes the number of votes cast, the fas username

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: I never considered this until today. In the US elections I attend, they have my name on a list at the voting precinct. When I come in to vote I sign my name and they mark that I've come in. Until today I'd never

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:50:58PM -0500, inode0 wrote: No. In what election where the votes cast are secret is the fact of voting public? I can't recall ever participating in such an election but maybe my head

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:53:59PM -0500, inode0 wrote: But anyway, if people feel really strongly about this, I think the opt out of badge tracking is an okay approach. (Even if it makes more checkboxes.) I find

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ralph Bean rb...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:06:58PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: FWIW, if you log in to https://badges.fedoraproject.org/ and visit your profile, I got Internal Server Error when I tried this... and now I'm on the home page,

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:21:30PM -0500, inode0 wrote: For example, in most elections in the United States. I'm sure the particulars vary by state, but it is the general case. For example, here's Iowa: http

Re: fedmsg for voting?

2013-09-10 Thread inode0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:13:03PM -0500, inode0 wrote: How shallow are Fedora contributors if a badge is what it takes to tip them over from being non-voters to being voters? If doing this increases our turnout

Re: F20 release name election?

2013-08-24 Thread inode0
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: That begs the question: what if the elected word has received a very low score compared to the maximum possible? Doesn't matter. That would mean that it received a very small support from our community, and in

Re: F20 release name election?

2013-08-24 Thread inode0
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2013 10:55, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: If None was an option, which I think is a terrible idea, the only thing you could conclude from it winning is the we preferred to not have a release name

Re: F20 release name election?

2013-08-24 Thread inode0
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2013 12:35, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't want to deal with names, just don't get in the emails or vote.. because it isn't worth getting worked up over. No point saying that because

Re: F20 release name election?

2013-08-23 Thread inode0
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think it's been hatred (or passionate fighting, or else he would have tried to reach a decision at the FPB level), but indeed, he has been one of those who think the release name process is a waste of time and

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-25 Thread inode0
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:04 AM, drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Brendan Jones brendan.jones...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/25/2013 12:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 16:50 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 12:15 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:50:11AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: snip Obvious we cannot have

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: My understanding is that Fedora is registered as a non-profit organization in the United States which I believe allows for anyone to donate to it *today* if they so chose. The fact that the only donations we see are

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:05:40AM -0500, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Darryl L. Pierce mcpie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:37:09PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: We would need

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 02:13 PM, inode0 wrote: Fedora is not any sort of legally recognized entity as far as I know. And the fact that the vast majority of contributions are time rather than money is because in order

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: I as a donor donating $20 would like those to run to $20? It's going to be a long road! 25,000 to 50,000 of those could get us

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:01 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:55:41PM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/24/2013 03:47 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Martin Langhoff

Re: Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

2013-07-24 Thread inode0
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/24/2013 04:40 PM, inode0 wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: The entire budget is not public so you won't get a definitive answer for a large portion

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-04 Thread inode0
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 22:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 05:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: The appropriate place to discuss deliberate design decisions is a forum where said decisions are

Re: Embedded SIG

2013-04-21 Thread inode0
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have started developing for embedded devices (aka microcontrollers) lately (mainly ARM cortex-M3 devices). Although fedora provides some of the needed tools, there are still some bits missing to provide a good

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-07 Thread inode0
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/07/2013 05:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I don't know for sure, but I'm not aware of any, sadly. A lot of the discussion happened in a big free-for-all that ensued from the flaming wreckage of spot's talk on a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread inode0
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/28/2013 02:06 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: You don't see the point of MATE or Cinnamon? How long did you play with them 5 minutes? Do you remember the GNOME 1.x = 2.x transition? Similarly to how there are forks of

Re: Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

2013-01-13 Thread inode0
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Greetings. I've whipped up the early ideas of a way to replace (most) spins with something that is more generic and useful. I have signed up for a fudcon session to brainstorm on this idea and see if it can be beaten into a

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-11 Thread inode0
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Benjamin Lewis ben.le...@benl.co.uk wrote: There is really no reason why the election messages couldn't go to all of FAS, and just have a note explaining that you need cla_done to vote. There is equally no reason, aside from it being more admin work, why you

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-11 Thread inode0
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: inode0 wrote: People working on the elections certainly try to make the community aware of the elections. Unfortunately we never seem to be able to get everyone's attention. One issue is that the voting period

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-10 Thread inode0
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Brian C. Lane b...@redhat.com wrote: I just saw the Fedora election results, and was surprised to learn there had been an election. After some digging I figured out what happened. Robyn sends her announce emails to: announce@, devel-announce@, test-announce@

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-10 Thread inode0
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:59:03 -0600, inode0 wrote: Looks like it was sent to the devel list as well. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174779.html 417 messages in December so far! Too

Re: Am I the only one who missed the election?

2012-12-10 Thread inode0
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:33:33 -0600, inode0 wrote: Looks like it was sent to the devel list as well. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174779.html 417 messages in December so far

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread inode0
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs problem. We might not

Re: fedora elections questions [Re: remove polkit from core?]

2012-11-15 Thread inode0
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:43:41AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Anyway, I'd like to hear what FESCo members have to say about this, because it would strongly influence who I would vote for. Yeah, I too came up

Re: Fedora multi-arch

2012-09-12 Thread inode0
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Henrique Junior henrique...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora multi-arch [1] is a good idea that is not receiving the emphasis it should. In fact, most people do not even know it exists and I

Re: Default image target size [Was:Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)]

2012-06-25 Thread inode0
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: inode0 wrote: The quota for these would need to be much higher already as the Multi-Desktop is now 6.1GB The Multi Desktop Live DVD is dual-layer, it's not expected to fit 4.7 GB. But dual-layer DVDs also have

Re: Default image target size [Was:Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)]

2012-06-23 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Andre Robatino wrote: Would it be possible for QA to get access to the Multi Desktops before release and test those directly against a media-determined hard limit? That makes sense, though the problem then is which

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-05 Thread inode0
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Tomas Mraz tm...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 21:30 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: El Sat, 2 Jun 2012 12:18:17 -0400 Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com escribió: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: The only Freedom you've lost

Re: *countable infinities only

2012-06-02 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:18:17PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Hmm, will the package maintainers have the freedom to not support users who have the secureboot enabled? How are we going to detect this? Any piece of

Re: Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

2012-04-03 Thread inode0
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@j2solutions.net wrote: On 4/3/12 9:44 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote: Anyway, we can easily arrange things so that the installer does not get autostarted anymore once you tick the 'No thanks, just playing' checkbox. Instead of

Re: /usrmove? - about the future

2012-02-10 Thread inode0
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Scott Doty sc...@ponzo.net wrote: On 02/10/2012 10:57 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 10:39 -0800, Scott Doty wrote: On 02/10/2012 10:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're not supposed to be running Fedora on production servers. That is not

Re: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide

2011-08-29 Thread inode0
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Karel Zak k...@redhat.com wrote:  I'd like to remove:    ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates  command from rawhide (F17). IMHO this crazy command is used by very  very small minority of Fedora users.  Comments? That would make me very sad.

Re: Trusted Boot in Fedora

2011-06-25 Thread inode0
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:41:36 -0600 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: I welcome posts back on the technical topic of trusted boot. ;) Right. So can we have specifics about what it's good for? Not how it is

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-16 Thread inode0
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Nils Philippsen n...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 22:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: Right. I'm not saying Jarod should issue Fedora Arrest Warrants (FAWs?) I like this. We also need black helicopters. Those are in the hangars at the secret desert

Re: Meeting summary/minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-09-14)

2010-09-15 Thread inode0
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Jon Masters jonat...@jonmasters.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:09 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: That's a good point, but I would hope that someone elected to serve on a body in Fedora would actually *want* to vote, and the measures above are just ideas meant

Re: Search Engine Proposal

2010-08-29 Thread inode0
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Manuel Escudero jmlev...@gmail.com wrote: 1) We're already using a GOOGLE SEARCH BOX!! in http://start.fedoraproject.org/ ¿Do you have the code for this one? NO. And Fedora Project is using it. I'm sharing a Fedora Solution an applied search engine for the

Re: Mailing list guidelines and smartphones

2010-08-14 Thread inode0
On Saturday, August 14, 2010, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: I'm still looking for an android email client that allows me to place the reply below the quoted text.  I guess an alternative is to delete the entire quoted text... While not very convenient the web browser let's you do

Re: Best distribution for developers? (was Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?)

2010-02-04 Thread inode0
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 20:51 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: Sadly they don't have categories like the best linux distribution for developers there. Is that what we're doing?  If so would

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread inode0
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, John Poelstra poels...@redhat.com wrote: Adam Miller said the following on 02/03/2010 08:02 AM Pacific Time: I'm not on some crusade to undermine the Board if that's what you think, I'm honestly looking for clarification but not only from those involved in the

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread inode0
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jesse Keating jkeat...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 12:54 -0600, inode0 wrote: I believe that what fundamentally makes the Fedora Project a great place to be is that it is an open community where the participants share a group of core values

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread inode0
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Mike McGrath wrote: I really don't know what our users are a measure of.  I don't think it's marketing as inode0 suggests, because the people using Fedora already know about it.  But if we step back

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-03 Thread inode0
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote: Sadly they don't have categories like the best linux distribution for developers there. Is that what we're doing?  If so would we win it? One thing I know that I am not doing

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: And to answer your question about what isnt' broken.  I suggest you look at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page.  We've only seen growth in 2 of our last 6 releases.  Think about that. While I don't see that

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Robyn Bergeron robyn.berge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: And to answer your question about what isnt' broken.  I suggest you look

Re: Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

2010-02-02 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgr...@redhat.com wrote: Unless you were misquoted the question you asked was:  Isn't it amazing how thousands of contributors doing whatever they want  created such a spectacular OS? [1] That was a rhetorical answer to the question, Does