On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 05:29:38PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 08:16:57 -0700,
Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Full information about the elections, including the elections schedule,
> and links to where one may nominate, can be seen here:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
This misses an important link. FESCO has their policy for elections at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FESCo_election_policy
One of the listed requirements is that nominees be members of the packager
group. We currently have a FESCO nominee who participates in QA who
does not qualify for FESCO if the information on that page is still
accurate. This should probably get clarified before the election gets
started.
I think FESCO dates back before there was a formal QA group and it may make
sense to modify the requirements for FESCO members in light of changes
over the last 3 years.
This has come up before in recent-ish-ly (My memory seems to think about two
election cycles ago so ~1 year. But I'm getting old and time may be passing
me by faster than I think :-). At that time it was still thought that
packager group made sense for people serving on FESCo. I don't remember any
new information that differed from the discussion waaaay back in time when
FESCo opened up the electorate to groups outside of packager but kept
packager as a requirement for nominees.
Note that this is just history; the people who make up FESCo these days may
take the same arguments and apply a different weight to them than the people
who discussed and decided upon this in the past.
-Toshio