GNOME Foundation board of directors election results [LWN.net]

GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 10, 2014 3:30 UTC (Tue) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126)
In reply to: GNOME Foundation board of directors election results by proski
Parent article: GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

I think the board of directors and their affiliations to the company doesn't matter much. For Eg. if gnome-shell developer wants to remove some features from his package, I seriously doubt the board of directors can do anything about it. The last batch of Board of directors were not able to stop any feature removal from natuilus,gnome-terminal etc.

Since most of the devs on the Gnome project are from red hat or suse they are going to go their way(corporate) of doing it.

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GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 10, 2014 9:33 UTC (Tue) by moggers87 (guest, #86573) [Link] (4 responses)

Unable or unwilling?

I.e. did they take any action to try and stop said feature removal?

GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 10, 2014 15:08 UTC (Tue) by Company (guest, #57006) [Link]

None of them is an active developer, designer or anything close to actual development. They are mostly doing administrative things.

So I wouldn't expect any actual involvement from any foundation member in the way the code evolves unless it was brought to their attention by others.

GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 10, 2014 15:22 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] (2 responses)

I believe the GNOME Foundation board is unable. It is meant to manage the money not the people. I believe it was set up in a similar to the Debian Project in that the "real" power is in the hands of the developers not the administrators.

GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 11, 2014 0:26 UTC (Wed) by louie (guest, #3285) [Link] (1 responses)

That is correct. To the extent the board has any actual technical power, that is entirely delegated to the release team anyway.

GNOME Foundation board of directors election results

Posted Jun 11, 2014 19:34 UTC (Wed) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628) [Link]

Yes, that is correct. The board only manages the release team and that is pretty much the extent of the board's involvement in technical matters. (in reality, the board doesn't really interfere with the release team for the most part)