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Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tip-of-the-hat dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica writes up Red Hat's giving up on the Fedora Foundation: 'In an open letter distributed to the Fedora community earlier this week, Red Hat employee and Fedora project leader Max Spevack states that Red Hat is no longer interested in establishing an autonomous, nonprofit foundation to manage the Fedora project. Instead, Red Hat will revive the Fedora Project Board, which will include five Red Hat representatives, four members of the Fedora community, and a chairman appointed by Red Hat who will possess veto power.'"

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  1. Re:Giving up on Fedora? by bout · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > It sounds to me like they see the value in Fedora
    > and don't want to give up control of it,... ;-)

    (Copying from a blog post I made about this)

    At first I was surprised that Red Hat finds it necessary to reserve ultimate control (veto power) over the Fedora project

    Veto power? The OpenSolaris Charter certainly does not grant Sun veto power. But then as I read the message more carefully and thought about it, something hit me like a bolt.

    First, some background: It's important to understand what exactly OpenSolaris is (and isn't). Unlike Fedora, OpenSolaris is purely a co-development project built around a code base. In other words, we do not conflate the OpenSolaris project/code with any of the distros derived from it. By contrast, Fedora is all three conflated into one: a) the Fedora co-development process b.) the Fedora code-base and c.) the Fedora distro.

    How does this relate to community self-governance?

    With OpenSolaris, one set of policies and procedures (the recently ratified OpenSolaris Charter) applies specifically to the co-development project and, by association, the code-base. This charter is community-driven. A separate set of policies and procedures applies to Solaris Express -- Sun's bi-weekly OpenSolaris based distro. This distro is Sun-driven and of course nobody objects to Sun controlling it because anyone can create their own OpenSolaris-based distro. (And as everybody knows, SchilliX, BeleniX, and Nexenta, have done exactly that.)

    Maybe RedHat should adopt this concept? It certainly stands to reason that the Fedora community developers would like it better...

    Eric Boutilier
    OpenSolaris
    Sun Microsystems