Dear Russ.
You don't like reputational vetting and a meritocracy, or how it is run by the people in charge who have as one goal: not distributing malware. I get it. Thank you.
Hey Russ, it's open source. You can just review the spec and comment it until it's ready for release. Source could be fetched directly from upstream and patches could be verified easily.
If you want my attention seeking to persuade, do not start a communication: 'Hey' as I consider it rude.
Sorry if I was getting rude and thanks for pointing some things out. ...
You (Marcus) have established yourself as irrelevant to me. I will not presently be supporting you for further advancement into the CentOS infrastructure if you seek or are proposed for such, until I see some 'merit' outside of talking
... but I must admit that your above statement is very rude to me.
I have started working on the project about 1 1/2 year ago, joined the promo sig and tried to promote CentOS. I personally do not see much sense in a bugtracker despite to distinguish if a bug should be tracked upstream or not. The few bugs left that are 'really' related to the project is something I am willed to look at.
Al and I have already started working on the new Website Infrastructure and forum migration with quite a lot success (which can be seen in the wiki).
Since March, Al is getting payed by me for his work on the project.
I have offered my help on rebuilding the which was not necessary so I have aksed Karan to line out the build process to make it at least transparent as possible (which is necessary in my pov).
I am continuously tracking wiki changes and fixing articles.
Besides that I have started to talk with Karan about setting up a legal background for the project and offered my help in the GSoC and contributed to the necessary application docs. Besides that I have taken care of the Pulse Newsletter.
This, I have all done in my 'free' time and I do not welcome your comments on that. Maybe we are working on different areas but this is not the form of respect I expect form a person like you. Btw. I would rather call myself a pusher not a talker ;)
But I have agree on some points. CentOS != Fedora and note meant to be for newcomers (at least in form of contributions) and maybe a 'Board' is not possible on a project like this. But at least contributors should be welcomed and not treated like today and if a 'Contrib' repository is available it should be used as named. Otherwise I would just remove it and suggest EPEL/RPMForge instead.
Best Regards Marcus