Fedora In the News
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Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
This past week's press focused on the appointment of Jared Smith as the new Fedora Project leader. Several postings follow.
New Fedora Project Leader appointed (The H Online)
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a brief posting about Jared Smith's appointment:
"Jared Smith will be the new Project Leader of the Fedora Project. This is the second non-Red Hat employee Red Hat has hired and appointed as Fedora Project Leader, after previous Project Leader Paul W. Frields."
The full post is available[2].
New project leader wears the Fedora (The Register UK)
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting covering Fedora 13 from a blog from 2010-06-16:
"Paul Frields, who has been getting his paycheck from Red Hat to run the Fedora development Linux variant since 2008, is moving back inside the company to work on Enterprise Linux, and an outsider named Jared Smith is being brought in as the new Fedora Project Leader.
Frields joined Red Hat in February 2008, replacing Max Spevack, another Red Hat employee who ran the open source Linux development product from February 2006 until Frields took over. Smith will take over the FPL position (which is a full-time job with a Red Hat paycheck) to steer the development of Fedora 14, something that Frields already got the ball rolling on."
The full post is available[2]
Red Hat names new Fedora Project Leader (Internetnews.com)
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] a posting from Internetnews.com:
"I'm a huge fan of the work and the leadership that current Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields has done since 2008. Frields has always been one of the most articulate, honest and insightful Linux community leaders that I have ever had the pleasure of working with.
. . .
The process of how Fedora's leadership is chosen is different than other distributions. It's not a totally democratic process like the one that Debian has. On the other hand it's not totally autocratic like Ubuntu. In a mailing list posting announcing the transition, Frields explained the process. "One of the hallmarks of Fedora leadership is that it's open to change," Frields wrote. "The FPL is not a semi-benevolent dictator for life, but rather a position to which new people can regularly bring their passion for making Fedora better...The FPL job is a salaried position at Red Hat, and the Fedora Board members as well as many other stakeholders have been informed and involved with the process of selecting a new FPL."
The full post is available[2]