On 12/29/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It would be nice if such a template was officially embeded into the review process docs and was maintained to always reflect the latest review/guidelines requirements.
As a reviewer and a packager, I'm always concerned that the liste of items I need to check as a matter of policy will shift under my feet. The packaging policy does evolve, and will continue to evolve, and I do my best to adhere to the stated guidance. If I'm not reading over the guidelines as I do any reviews, I'm garunteed to miss a policy change. Boiling down requirements into a template, especially a template that could highlight in some way 'newness' of specific policy items would help notify me of policy shifts over time. I can't reasonably assume that the guidelines I remember from 3 months ago are completely appropriate now. If we had an embedded template that was sorted such with 'newness' of individual policy items could be quickly guaged it would help my efficiency immensely because I could concentrate my time on re-reading the guidance of the specific policy items which have been updated recently. Right now I spend too much time reading over all the guidance looking for changes everytime I do a review. For example if .desktop policy changes again next month, a template could put the desktop related check item at the end of the list, perhaps with a effective-as-of date. This would tell me as a reviewer that I need to go back and make a detailed reading of the desktop policy in the guidelines because it's changed since the last time I ran a review or submitted a package. -jef -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
