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Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 5, 2014 16:57 UTC (Thu) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
In reply to: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development by pjones
Parent article: Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Since you've decided to try to back this up with the current election process in the project you might want to explain to the audience how large number of Fedora contributors actually participate in the election and how many of those are Red Hat employees backing up the next RHEL 8 vision which they themselves are working on so people can actually see how representing for the community those elections are ( which in turn will invalidate what you or anyone else that matter tries to justify anything based on the outcome of the project election process as well as highlight the fact that there is something seriously wrong with our election process since people from the community aren't participating enough in it )

And when it comes to FESCo and election, on numerous occasion while participating in the community I heard from several individuals that did not want to run for FESCo due to the fact there where always they same Red Hat employees hogging every seat ( Kyle cropping up to hold that pattern true these days ) preventing fresh perspective from the community or just even within Red Hat from taking place because people where afraid going against the stone age fractiont. ( which again just highlight the fact there there is something significantly wrong with the election process since there is not enough diversity in individuals nominating themselves to participates in various governing entities within the project. )

Alot of good thing he did you say like backstabbing Lennart or when he tries to force me to adjust my cron to time feature migration to accommodates his cloud /container vision then hijack my cron to time migration feature proposal which does not even make sense since to be able to implement what he suggested we would have had to create several new targets and at that point you are forced to write new proposal and we could just as well migrate everything to timer units, which we technically cant at this point and probably never will since cronie and timer units aren't interchangeable components. They complement each others shortcoming.

Every time I was going to confront him on certain things he said on that ticket or even trying to understand why he was so obsessed with this he conveniently was absent from the FESCo meeting.

The fact is that anyone that does not have shit for brains has spotted far greater leadership material in Stephen Gallagher who has been part of the new future vision from the get go while showing true leadership skills while doing so, If the underlying political move for Matt's choosing boiled down to support the RHEL 8 next release as in the.next and wg proposal.

If that was not the reason for Matt being chosen you have much more capable people leading the project both within Red Hat and outside it with women candidates taking precedence over male once ( With Máirín probably top on that list after years of dedication to the project or Ruth ) .

In the end of the day what Matt has demonstrated is that he cant be trusted for anything else than leading his left foot in front of the right.


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Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 9, 2014 23:38 UTC (Mon) by AdamW (subscriber, #48457) [Link] (1 responses)

You could consider the possibility that any one or more of those folks was offered the FPL job but declined. It's not a job everyone wants to do. I know for certain that several people have been offered it and declined at various of the handover points.

(Note that I am speaking in generalities here; I have no specific information as regards any of those particular people. I'm just pointing out a possibility you seem to be overlooking.)

Questioning corporate involvement in GNOME development

Posted Jun 10, 2014 0:44 UTC (Tue) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

Interesting that you assumed I had already not considered that, based on one of our talks and what we both know so you should give me a bit more credit than that, but the fact is in the end of the day it's irrelevant since you don't put people with characteristics like Matt has shown into leadership positions so he never should have been on that list to begin with.

The possibility I did not take into account was that people that are behind this process within Red Hat did, since up to this point they have been smarter than this ( which indicates they might have been replaced ) so one can only speculate what went through Denise mind when she signed this off for the project and who managed to cloud her judgment since she should have stopped this nonsense from happening in the first place.


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