Fedora Council overturns FESCo provenpackager decision [LWN.net]

The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering Council's (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson's provenpackager status. In a statement published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has announced that it has overturned FESCo's decision:

FESCo didn't have a specific policy for dealing with a request to remove Proven Packager rights. In addition, the FESCo process was handled entirely in private. The contributor didn't receive a formal notification or warning from FESCo, and felt blindsided by the official decision when and how it was announced. The Fedora Council would like to extend our sincerest apology on behalf of the Fedora Project to them.

LWN covered the story in December 2024.

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This is how things should be done

Posted May 23, 2025 21:07 UTC (Fri) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962) [Link]

The statement by the Fedora Council is an excellent example of handling delicate issues:
- A sincere apology
- Acknowledgement of how the person affected by the earlier decision (by another committee) feels
- Adjustment of the decision (in this case reversal) after an independent investigation
- Analysis of the process which led to the earlier disaster
- Lessons learned on where to improve the process
- Initiating an improvement of the process

There are quite a few projects which can learn from this.