On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 10:08:57 -0000, Eris Gaia wrote: > Hello again! Sorry, it's been a very busy month. From my initial > observations I have decided to move on from this project, but I wanted > to share some feedback with you before I go. >
Thanks very much for your feedback. I've replied to your ticket where you posted this intially, and I'll paste my response here also for everyone's convenience: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Welcome-to-Fedora/issue/206 ----------- There are very few positions where someone from Red Hat is appointed and there is good reason to do so. You can see the ones appointed to the Council here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/#_appointed_leadership_positions Apart from this, all Red Hat employees that work on Fedora are considered volunteers and we are all equals in the community. All bodies (FESCo/Mindshare/CommOps) have elections where any one from the community can nominate themselves. For eg: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/FESCo_election_policy/#_candidates The reason why you see Red Hat employees in leadership positions is because their jobs at Red Hat are closely linked to the Fedora life-cycle and this allows them to spend more time on Fedora related tasks than us volunteers---perhaps because they are in-charge of the infrastructure (the CPE team, which looks after Fedora/CentOS/other infrastructure which we all share) or because their Red Hat roles are dependent on software in Fedora (because stuff lands in Fedora before it trickles down to RHEL etc.). Indeed, their managers may set up their tasks in such a way that they are able to spend time on Fedora tasks. That's perfectly fine. There are other volunteers in the community where their managers will allow them to work on Fedora tasks because the corporation may be using Fedora in some way. Most of us at the Join SIG have day-jobs that are not directly related to Fedora. So we can only find time after our work hours and our personal responsibilities to work on Fedora tasks. This is usually only a few hours a day (if we're lucky!). So, I'm personally quite happy to let someone with more time on their hands lead initiatives---we try very hard not to let ourselves lick cookies. I wish my job was more closely related to Fedora so that my manager would let me set time aside to work on Fedora tasks, but unfortunately, that's not the case. You're not the first person to worry about this, and I'm sure you won't be the last. However, all our discussions and decision making happen in the open (see the devel list where all features landing in Fedora are discussed). We "default to open". So anytime one feels there's an undue influence from an organisation that is not in the best interests of the Fedora community, it is immediately flagged and dealt with openly in the community Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, and Fedora Linux remains upstream for CentOS and Red Hat, so it is expected that lots of software that is intended to finally land in these downstream distributions will land in Fedora first, but they must all go through the same process as all other software. No package gets special treatment. Another important feature of the community is that we assume best intentions. That does not mean that we are naive, but we don't suspect each other of malice by default. Lastly, contribution is completely voluntary. We contribute because we get something in return (whatever that is---the OS, or just satisfaction from contributing to FOSS). Anyone that has reservations can contribute to other FOSS projects. That's perfectly fine too. I will now close this ticket. Cheers, and all the best. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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