Isn’t this entire thread proof that an “open, public way” is exactly what has not happened here?
It’s less than three weeks since the story being presented in email to the devel list was that they would like to “explore bringing this work more formally into the Fedora
community” and now it’s a done deal?
In reality of course there’s no way they weren’t already planning the big summit announcement when they sent that email so presumably it was just an attempt to create some sort of fig leaf of community consultation without blowing the “big bang” announcement.