On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 13:56 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 06:53 -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > >> Hi Adam, > >> Yes, some items might fall partly or fully upon the base WG, but we (as their 'customers') > >> need to clearly specify what we need them to deliver. The base WG todo list needs to be > >> based upon the needs and requirements of the 3 product WGs, not the other way around. > > > > I agree there needs to be communication and co-ordination here, I'm just > > not sure the workstation technical specification is the place for that > > communication to happen. > > > > What I was guessing would happen would be that the 'product' WGs and the > > base WG would have the discussion in some other forum - a mailing list > > thread, a different wiki page, whatever - and the requirements formed as > > a result of that discussion would be a part of the base WG's > > specification, and the product specifications could then reference the > > base specification where appropriate. > > Someone needs to start the list somewhere. The Base WG hasn't done > anything of this nature at all. The spec can be sent to them for > review, which I believe Jaroslav has volunteered to do. > > > Otherwise it seems like we'll wind up with something unwieldy like the > > base specification *and* each of the product specifications all > > containing the same text (or, worse, different text for the same > > requirements), which seems suboptimal. > > I agree that's a possibility, but I'd rather _one_ of the WGs start by > trying to be productive and then reaching out instead of having them > all just sit around waiting for each other. Sure, if the long-term plan is to rationalize things down as Matthew also suggested, sounds fine. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
