I'm stepping down from EPEL's Steering Committee. As a replacement I
recommend one of the following top five packagers in EPEL:
steve(a)silug.org
matthias(a)rpmforge.net
rdieter(a)math.unl.edu
orion(a)cora.nwra.com
chris.stone(a)gmail.com
EPEL's Steering Committee has a bad balance between deciders and
doers, therefore I suggest to try to get more packaging folks into the
game. Maybe that would bring back some things back to balance.
The reasons for stepping down are the following:
o Personal conflicts with Thorsten Leemhuis.
Not much needs to be explained about this, whoever followed a couple
of discussions will understand that Thorsten and I are not working
well together. Many of the following issues are about where Thorsten
is steering EPEL to.
o Disapproving EPEL's course
I cannot stand for EPEL anymore, not within the project and even
more not representing it to the outside. Since people outside EPEL
think of me as a bridge between 3rd parties and EPEL I get the load
of requests that I by now know I cannot push through into EPEL.
o Conflict of interests between EPEL and ATrpms (or successor)
Given that I identify myself as primarily a non-EPEL third party
contributor (ATrpms), and that cooperation requests like the
repotag issue bounced off that ugly on EPEL, I can't fight myself,
just as I don't want to fight other established third party
repos and RHEL clones. The repotag aftermath alone costed me far too
much manpower and things are still in need of further work.
o Conflict of interests between EPEL and FPC
As the single overlap member between EPEL and FPC I was considered
to mediate between the two groups, but I was found myself more often
in the position of having to defend FPC from Thorsten's passing on
unpleasant EPEL matters to the FPC.
--
Axel.Thimm at
ATrpms.net