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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2023
> At an online media event staged by Germany-based software vendor Software AG earlier this month, former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was very much the booster for open-source, as well as the open management style inspired by open-source principles that he instituted during his time as Red Hat’s CEO.
> That doesn’t mean that all open source advocates are going to be in total agreement with, or even like, his views on the subject. He is, after all, a businessman, an investor, and an advisor, so his views are much more aligned with those of profit-driven enterprises, where the open source development model is a means to an end, than folks who are steeped in the free software philosophy, and who tend to view open-source and free software as the whole enchilada rather than a piece of the puzzle.
> In today’s post we are going to recommend which distro use, from the RHEL family, for office environments and which one for a business environment.
> In January 2023, the Fedora Council approved a title change for the Fedora community role. The Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator (FCAIC) is now renamed to Fedora Community Architect (FCA).
> Last December, I was working together with Matthew Miller and Ben Cotton on our role pages in the Council docs, as part of a planned review of our role documentation. While reviewing the FCAIC role documentation, I took a new look at the role title and whether I felt it was still right. While it does describe the role and responsibilities well, it still doesn’t feel quite right to me, in a similar way that Community Lead didn’t feel right in 2016. I spent some time thinking about the FCAIC role, how it has changed over the years, and what I feel it describes. Since I am still early in the role, it felt like a good time to consider a title change.
> I settled on Fedora Community Architect as the new title for the FCAIC role. In addition to being shorter, I feel like it better describes the role. Community work does not have an industry-accepted job ladder, as is more common with software engineering. Red Hat eventually settled on the title of community architect to encapsulate and describe community work in its pioneering open source communities. I also like Community Architect as a title. There is more literature and examples for others to understand the work.
> I thought I’d share a fun hour or so of my afternoon and how I approached tracking down a bug in the Fedora Xfce spin.
> The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170682 “Updates cause Xfce to lose all menu icons”. A curious bug, on updating to the latest version icons in menus no longer were enabled (although the user didn’t disable them and they are enabled by default).
> Since the report happily had the update where it started, I went and looked first upstream (which turned out to be a mistake, but you never know). I looked through the recent commits for xfce4-settings to see if anything stood out as possibly being related to this. Nothing really did. All the changes seemed minor and unrelated.
> This article introduces four new projects available in Copr, with installation instructions.
> You have just been sponsored to the Fedora packager group and your review ticket was formally granted the fedora-review+ flag?
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