Hi, no. But you can talk to us directly, we have multiple channels. And all our blocker discussions are public. You can read everything that we wrote when discussing this issue. You can even join us and present your opinion next time, we welcome having more people in our meetings and helping us.
And yes, we try to follow our release criteria pretty strictly, because we have a long-time experience of times when we didn’t - contentious discussions took hours and days, multiple times per milestone and release, every release. And we weren’t consistent across releases anyway. Different stakeholders have very different views on what is such a critical bug that the release must not be published until it’s resolved. The best solution we came up with was to have the difficult conversation once and write down the outcome, hence release criteria. That doesn’t mean they’re set in stone, they evolve over time, and when we find something critical that is not covered, we try to add it (the latest example), through a public discussion across all parties, as always. We’re happy to hear feedback on how to improve the process, but it might be a good idea to stick around for a while first, so that you understand what the challenges are and why the process is what it is.
(Oh, and I’ll be trying to write up some workarounds guide in Ask Fedora > Common Issues for this problem, so if you have good tips on making Fedora well functional even in geoblocked countries, make sure to write them down here, and I’ll go through them creating the guide. That would be much appreciated. Thanks).