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📝 council(ROOT): Fix review date; add 2026 role changes summary

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Two unrelated fixes to the page's header and footer, bundled together
since both touch document structure rather than role content.

The "Article content last reviewed and verified by a human on…" comment
followed by a bare date was never valid AsciiDoc metadata. Comments are
silently dropped but a bare line is not a comment or an attribute entry,
so once the header's attribute-entry parsing reached it, the header
terminated early and the date became the first paragraph of the page
body — visibly, as "2026-07-05" floating above the actual introduction.
This bug predates this rewrite; it was already present in the original
PR #253 commit. The fix folds the date into the revision line's
`revdate` field (`v5.0-alpha, 2026-07-05`), which is the mechanism
AsciiDoc actually provides for this. The Fedora Docs UI already reads
`revdate` and displays it in the byline as "Last review: 2026-07-05,"
right next to the version number it was already rendering correctly.

The new "2026 role changes" section is a short, prose summary of what
changed in this rewrite and why, in the same narrative style as "Why
so many titles?" immediately above it. The intent is the same as that
section's: role charters like this one should carry their own history
forward, so a future reader, including a future FCA, can see not just
what the role covers today, but why it changed. Section names that are
still part of the current page are linked to their anchors; names of
sections that were removed during this rewrite are italicized without a
link, since there is nowhere left to send a reader.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 5 (1M context)
Signed-off-by: Justin Wheeler <jwheel@redhat.com>
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Justin Wheeler 2026-07-05 05:30:17 -04:00
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@ -2,11 +2,9 @@ include::ROOT:partial$attributes.adoc[]
= Fedora Community Architect (FCA)
Remy DeCausemaker; Brian Exelbierd; Marie Nordin; Justin Wheeler; Shaun McCance
v5.0-alpha
v5.0-alpha, 2026-07-05
:page-aliases: fcaic.adoc
:description: The Fedora Community Architect (FCA) is responsible for Fedora Council governance, budget and financial stewardship, the Flock contributor conference, and upstream/downstream ecosystem stewardship including CentOS.
// Article content last reviewed and verified by a human on…
2026-07-05
{description}
The FCA holds one of three permanent Red Hat seats on the Fedora Council and serves as the primary steward of the institutional relationships, governance authority, and financial accountability that keep Fedora functioning as an open, sustainable project.
@ -168,3 +166,12 @@ The title was changed in January 2023 to *Fedora Community Architect* (FCA) to r
Ultimately, the goal of changing the name then was to better describe the role and what the FCA did in Fedora.
The lengthy "FCAIC" title often came with an explanation to others unfamiliar with Fedora and our unique community culture.
FCA was also a handy shortening of the longer FCAIC acronym too!
[[role-changes-2026]]
=== 2026 role changes
In 2026, this charter was substantially rewritten to describe the FCA's actual scope of work, rather than the broader "community manager" framing it had carried since the role's earliest days.
<<roles,_Roles and Responsibilities_>> was reorganized around four concrete areas — <<roles-governance,_Council governance_>>, <<roles-budget,_budget and fiduciary stewardship_>>, the <<roles-flock,_Flock conference_>>, and <<roles-centos,_CentOS ecosystem stewardship_>> — with CentOS added as a newly explicit responsibility, reflecting the deepening relationship between Fedora and its sibling project.
The _Community Initiative Support_ and _Collaboration with Community Ops_ sections were removed — the former because the Fedora Council paused the Community Initiatives program, and the latter because supporting Community Ops was never a distinct, formal responsibility of the role.
<<decision-making,_Decision-Making_>> was expanded to state plainly that the FCA, while a Red Hat employee, is a fiduciary for the Fedora Project: the community budget belongs to Red Hat, but its stewardship serves Fedora.
The FCA's ongoing working relationship with the Fedora Project Leader and Fedora Operations Architect was documented for the first time, and the stakeholder list in <<communication,_Communication_>> was tightened to reflect only the relationships tied to a formal responsibility.