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  • According to the Fedora Council, the AI Developer Desktop proposal exposed deeper problems with the current process. The Council said the Community Initiatives framework has failed to provide a good space where new ideas can surface, receive respectful feedback, and gain support when they fit Fedora’s present or future direction.

    As a first step, the Fedora Council will immediately pause the Community Initiatives process. This pause affects only the process, not overall Fedora development.

    Sure reads like “we don’t care if the entire community is against it, we’re doing this anyway and there won’t be any new features until we finish”












  • People management is harder than it seems. Getting the people working for you to be happy and high performing is not hard but balancing those needs across a whole team becomes challenging. 5 people trying to coordinate a schedule is really tough - ask any gaming group about availability. A big 15 person team is more than 3 times as hard.

    Leadership is also much harder to learn than experience. Experience is just surviving the ordeal and knowing how to get through it better. It’s persistence and observation as you solve the problems as they pop up.

    Leadership is knowing who to talk to, how to appeal to a person, how to read social cues and pick up on unspoken behavior. A team member is equally capable of building the team as they are of poisoning the team. Good leaders can recognize talent and temperament that gels with the existing people. You’re effectively picking other peoples’ friends. (And not such good friends that no work gets done)

    Experience can be taught. Leadership has to be learned.