On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:29, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
..even trivial matters like the
agreed on definition of open source.
This is especially important when the small consensous making group is
discussion/making policy that a larger group is going to be trying to
interpret and abide by, as is the case of the larger community
developer pool who will be using fedora extras to maintain packages
in. If leadership has to continually re-clarify the consensous
decision to new community members who disagree with veteran community
members, thats a waste of leaderships valuable time and prevents
community from establishing its own mentoring processes of new
volunteers.
I believe, as it stands, the way which important policy decisions are
passed down to the fedora community is...
The first person who's email address matches /^.+(a)redhat.com/ to respond
to a thread becomes the authoritative source of Red Hat's official
opinion, unless they explicitly state "This does not represent official
redhat opinion." In that case, control passes to the next
redhat.com
email address to reply...
:-)