Here’s my take: I proposed that we move conversations about Changes from the devel list to this site. That raised the visibility enormously, and brought in a lot of new people — including long-time Fedora users who hadn’t previously been active in our Change discussions.
That’s great (even if the sheer volume has made it all a bit hard to keep up with). But, it feels like a lot of folks are showing up without understanding Fedora’s long-standing process. I’ve seen a lot of people saying they’ll never trust Fedora again because this was even proposed — I won’t put words in your mouth, but I think that’s what you’re implying with “not sure about that anymore”. I’m also seeing many people upset with Michael for defending the proposal. But that’s… how it works. It’s something he and his team want to do. So of course he’s going to advocate for it. (Some of his language could have been a lot more diplomatic. But not everyone should have to be a silver-tongued diplomat to suggest an idea! There isn’t a corporate PR team approving any of this.)
I’m going to link to my own post from earlier rather than repeating:
We need it to be safe for people to propose changes, even controversial ones. I hope, on reflection, people find that worthy of trust after all.