----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 10:50:48 AM > Subject: Re: RFC: Feature process improvements > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:56:04PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. > > > > individual > > > > package version upgrades) > > > > > > I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better > > > towards > > > the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions > > > of > > > packages and add something in the release notes for each major > > > GUI / > > > programming language / user application that got a big update. > > > > Rather than make "someone" review a whole bunch of stuff, it would > > be > > much easier for maintainers to submit what they are doing. > > Frankly, if > > a maintainer doesn't think it is worth their while to announce a > > major > > change, then it isn't worth someone else's time to sift through the > > whole distribution and look for "notable" changes. > > Well fair enough, but at the moment these have to go through the > feature process, which is extremely cumbersome for a routine upgrade. > > Take a look at: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GHC741 > > That's a huge amount of text for a routine version bump in a set of > minor packages. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top Yes, but the feature owners surely wants proper testing. We were also wondering if some features couldn't be acked only by SIG. For example ghc SIG could be fine with update proposal and write only release note for marketing, couldn't they? -- Marcela -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
