Christopher Aillon wrote:
1. The Board/FESCo needs this information. I'll agree using those hats.
2. The current way of getting the information is causing headache. "If
you want to be allowed to work, you need to plead your case to the Don,
and then every two weeks you need to pay up with status reports else
your feature gets sent to sleep with the fishes." Using my maintainer
hat, I'll agree with Matthias this policy is not ideal.
I am not sure who anybody needs to plead to. FESCo approval is a simple
check so that people don't end up putting things non-free software
helpers in the roadmap or anything else like that. If we are tracking
some features, they would need status reports. The need for that should
be obvious.
Possible solutions:
* Go to a "point man". Appoint someone from e.g. the KDE Sig, Desktop
team, Rel-Eng, etc to provide updates for all relevant features. This
lets the engineers do the work, and lets others contribute esp if they
aren't necessarily engineers and facilitates intra-team communication.
Desktop doesn't have a SIG, a list of members, lead, regular irc
meetings or a contact point documented unlike the other examples pointed
out here but if they do the specs could easily have desktop SIG as the
contact point instead of a specific person. That is in fact already the
case for example, the spec for the KDE 4 plan where KDE SIG is the
owner. Point man is Rex Dieter.
* Ask for updates via IRC, casually. Maintainers tend to be quite
responsive when asked casually vs in a formal capacity. It's just geek
nature. Fedora needs to mold around they work, not the other way
around. A "Feature Manager" would be suited to do this.
* Monitor checkins/IRC chat. Slightly more agressive version of the
previous. Probably not feasible.
Formal capacity vs informal chat seems to a matter of sending mails vs
asking on IRC. IRC has several problems as a means of tracking
features. Spec owners are distributed all over the world. Many of them
don't do IRC. Finding which server or channels they hang out in can be
difficult. You have to be in the same time zone etc. Sounds tedious to me.
Rahul
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