On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 08:25 +0200, David Tardon wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:23:04AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 14:29 +0200, David Tardon wrote: > > > Or do we really need a policy/process/guideline for _everything_? > > > > I tend to find it's a good idea. It has lots of benefits and virtually > > no drawbacks, except that someone has to find time to write it. > > And then everyone else has to read it and _remember_ it, which is IMHO > the main drawback. And because some/many will not, we are no better off > than before, except there is one policy more. > > Note: I am not against policies in general, just against policies > regarding trivial matters. I _would_ check packaging guidelines before > submitting a new package for review. I _would not_ look at the current > e-mail sending policy (if there was one) before sending an e-mail to > fedora-devel. Actually, there is a good chance I would not even remember > there _was_ any e-mail sending policy... well, there's obviously a line somewhere. but frankly this particular example is, to me, an absolutely _ideal_ candidate for an SOP. I mean, look, what is it fesco wants? They want a rotating chair. Which effectively means that a single, fairly rote task - announce a meeting is going to happen, chair the meeting, send out minutes from the meeting - is going to be done so infrequently by such a large group of people that no single one of them is likely to do it often enough to actually remember exactly how it's done each time. which is going to lead to small or large variances in procedure and all sorts of inadvertent mistakes. It's not like meetings where the same person does it every week and could do it with their eyes shut and their hands strapped to their chair. Not that I have any experience of such things. Ahem. I can't really think of a situation _better_ suited to an SOP. I mean, on top of the above, FESCo membership *changes* all the time. What better way is there to explain to a new FESCo member how to chair the meeting for the first time than 'go read the SOP which explains exactly how to chair the meeting'? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
