[$] Fedora grapples with change

The Fedora Project is known for,among other things, having a well-defined set of processes for just abouteverything. It has extensive packagingguidelines that deal with the complexities of creating RPMs to installsoftware, as well as processes for managing the legal questions thatarise around shipping software. Fedora also has a well-defined changeprocess for dealing with self-contained technical changes as well as majorchanges to the distribution, and other issues as they arise. At the moment,though, the project seems to be experiencing a sort of midlife crisis as itre-examines several of its change processes at once to determine if they arestill effective.