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by yjftsjthsd-h
1071 days ago
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> Fedora is and remains a community project. While Red Hat certainly has a strong voice in the team meetings, development continues to occur in the open. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/members/ lists 7 people. Of these, 6 appear to be Red Hat employees (the other 1 doesn't list employment, so I'll assume it isn't RH). I'll agree that it's developed in the open, just like CentOS Stream, but I struggle to see how Fedora - RHEL's upstream, the continuation of Red Hat Linux, a project whose trademarks are owned by Red Hat, whose leadership is 6/7ths RH employees - is anything but a project by Red Hat. |
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"Historical Note The previous previous governance structure (Fedora Board) had five members directly appointed by Red Hat and five elected at large. The current structure is more complicated but has a much greater proportion of members selected by the community by election or merit. In the previous board structure, the Fedora Project leader had a special veto power; in the current model, all voting members can block on issues, with a valid reason. The FPL does not have a special veto, but does have a limited power to “unstick” things if consensus genuinely can’t be reached and a decision needs to be made."
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/#_historical_no...
Note that the community can and does select Red Hatters willingly if they are the best fit for the position. It doesn't change the fact that the community is still in full control of the project, Red Hat just sponsors it. Fedora could go off in whatever direction they want, and assuming the community supports it, Red Hat can't do anything about this, many community members have made this very clear over the years, and they also lay it out in the docs: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/fedora-and-r...
That's (one of the reasons) why Red Hat forks Fedora and then makes whatever changes they need to make.