On Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:22:20 pm Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 05:34 -0500 schrieb Jared K. Smith: > > I guess what I'm trying > > to say is that making a list of past grievances *without* ideas and > > suggestions for moving forward isn't as useful (at least to me) as a > > list of possible solutions or ideas for making things better in the > > future. > > If I name 10 things that went wrong in the past, the stop forward IMHO > is obvious. Stop it! > > It's simply the opposite of what has happened: > * If you are about to make changes that affect a large number of > packages and maintainers, announce them on time. This is already > in the wiki at [1]. > * Do not make fundamental changes late in the release cycle, not a > few days and not after *after* beta freeze [2]. > * Do not hardcode dependencies too much. [3]. > * Do not hardcode dependencies on themes. This is useless because > you will never know if people are actually using this particular > theme. > * Respond to bugs in a timely manner [4]. > * Communicate, reply to questions and critisism. I agree - but these points are more FESCo point and tasks for FESCo. R. > I think we all agree on these points. They are ether part of our > guidelines or common sense. The question is why some people still don't > care. We had this discussion in the past a couple of times but so far > nothing has really changed. > > Regards, > Christoph > > [1] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_ot > hers_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages [2] > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beta_Freeze_Policy and > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Policy > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requires > [4] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Deal_with > _reported_bugs_in_a_timely_manner > > > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
