On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I really don't know why the REAL ACTIONS on this feature were started >> that late in F17 release cycle - several months after branching. > > Because politics took so long. Which part exactly? * Half of July 2011! The feature page was created * Sep 29: Marked as ReadyForWrangler * Oct 27 (+~1 month!): First reviewed by Feature Wrangler * Nov 07 (+11 days): Approved by wrangler, on agenda for FESCo * Nov 21 (+14 days): After much discussion, feature approved * Nov 14 (+7 weeks since feature proposed!, +7 days on FESCo agenda): FESCo asked for FPC review (AFAICT, feature owners typically include FPC review in scope of their features themselves) * Nov 21 (+7 days): FPC review initiated by FESCo * Dec 8 (+2.5 weeks): Final FPC approval, RPM changes requested * Dec 15 (+2.5 months since feature proposed!, +3.5 weeks since feature approval): ProvenPackager requested * Jan 3 (+3 weeks): First ProvenPackager approved * Jan 9 (+3.5 weeks): Second ProvenPackager approved * sometime after Jan 15 (+5.5 weeks since FPC asked for RPM changes!): rel-eng contacted * Jan 27 (+ <=2 weeks): rel-eng brings objections to FESCo * Feb 2 (+ 1 week): objections resolved * Jan 24 (+2 months since feature approval! +7 weeks since FPC approval! +13 days since second ProvenPackager): first feature-related commits to Fedora git I'll grant you that the politics took some time, sometimes more time than would be desirable, but most of the multi-month delays are directly attributable to not even giving the politics a chance to start. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
