Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1081013/

Aoife Moloney has, on behalf of the Fedora Council, posted an
announcement that the Fedora Council is “proposing we pause the
Community Initiatives process as an official project process”
because it has decided the current process is ineffective. It is also
closing discussion regarding the AI developer desktop
initiative covered by LWN in May.

The Fedora Objectives/Initiatives framework was never intended as a
mandatory prerequisite to do the work in Fedora. It supposed to help
by focusing the community on a certain work when needed, not to decide
what is allowed. The AI developer desktop initiative proposal
highlighted that the Community Initiatives process has failed to serve
as a good framework in Fedora where new ideas can surface, receive
respectful feedback, and gain Council support for work that fits the
project’s present and/or future. This is something that the Council
must address.

As a first step, we would like to halt the community initiative
process immediately. Existing initiatives in flight (Fedora Forge,
Atomic, and Fedora Docs 2026) will continue with full Council
backing. Their underlying work will be completed as planned in their
current timeboxed state, though the administrative framework around
them may evolve.
As a second step, we would like to work out a new mechanism to allow
Council to set strategic direction in an open, transparent way that
more intentionally includes the community voice. We recognise that we
have to be better at being more open in our discussions and decision
making.

The council is considering the “sandbox” proposal as an
alternative or supplement to a process that replaces the Community
Initiatives.