[CentOS-devel] Vote of Confidence

I think a lot of this is either already well-addressed (like the
participation model in Stream) or will become clear over time. You reference
Stef's blog post, so I know you're keeping up on those things and don't need
repeats. So, I'm not going to do a line-by-line reply. I do want to
specifically address the parts where you ask about directly about me and
suggest things for Fedora, though:

> How about you, Matthew Miller? Can we go to you to get Stream SIG
> sponsorship? Are you even on the governance board for Stream? Do you have
> any personal investment in making us "very welcome" to form a BTRFS SIG?

I am not part of CentOS governance. As Rich says, the list of members is
current. 

However, I very much care about CentOS success as part of the whole Red Hat
distribution family and a Fedora downstream, and because as I mentioned I
consider myself part of the CentOS community. So, while I can't sponsor
anything, I very much would like to see CentOS SIGs and Fedora teams working
more closely together. I'm positive that the people working on BTRFS in
Fedora would also like to see it in CentOS Stream. So I'm happy to do what I
can to facilitate that.


> Yes, we have a RHEL Insider Fast Ring called the Fedora Project.
> What would make perfect sense is to make the RHEL Insider Slow Ring called Stream fall under Fedora Project as well.

I've thought about this a lot! While I love things that grow Fedora, I think
there's also benefit to a clear distinction. Since the Fedora Extras/Core
merge, it's an underlying expectation that we have community participation
and access across the board. There's no "only Red Hat decides this". With
CentOS, on the other hand, the core expectation has _always_ been that Red
Hat makes the fundamental engineering decisions for the OS itself while the
CentOS community does things _around_ that. It's a different kind of project
with a different kind of participation.

CentOS Stream doesn't change that expectation for the CentOS Project; it's
just a better version of the model: discussion and pull requests welcome,
rather than "well, you could file a bug with Red Hat and hope someone
notices".



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader