What will happen to Red Hat downstream with Ben Cotton Fired from Fedora Program Manager?

[benlimanto]

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-PM-Red-Hat-Laid-Off

The role was eliminated in May 2023.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/fpgm/

"If you listen to the latest 2.5 Admins podcast, Jim Salter (from Ars) claims to have some inside info that says more bad open-source news is coming from IBM (RedHats’s corporate daddy) in the coming weeks.

Skip to 13:25.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-142/"

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/13h8xcn/fedora_program_manager_laid_off_as_part_of_red/jk46m...

https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/

I seen many bad news for past 2 quarter of 2023... it's sad to see OpenSource.com, then Fedora

Any thought from Red Hat team here? I mean, people on the community is anoxious about this condition. It's also a silly question, what will happen with Fedora -> CentOS Stream -> RHEL model then? Will it gone?

[MikeMcGrath · Accepted solution]

We haven't made any changes to Fedora's mission and are looking for how to move forward from here.

[benlimanto]

Thanks for the clarification. Hope this made clear by the Fedora Council, because the CentOS Stream "fiasco" (some call it fiasco, some aren't, but it's toward good upstream, just bad communication/PR), still ringing in community mind...

Hope Red Hat kept growing, and kept stewarding Fedora Linux.

Thanks Mr. Mike.