On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sure. FESCo doesn't care if it's a feature or not.
>
> That's why it's no longer called the Feature process. FESCo is anMaybe I still misunderstand, but what this email says is instead of
> engineering committee and has no business determining if something is
> a Feature in an upcoming release of the distro. That is a marketing
> task. The new process focuses on technical changes within the distro
> and whether those changes require cooperation between maintainers or
> additional help or oversight.
FESCo, an educated group of people deciding on features that can be
extremely technical, they have no business either making even a
recommendation and marketing is now handling this?
No, FESCo will still do the _engineering_ work of reviewing the proposed changes, ensuring the impact is known and coordinated, and so on. All of the FESCo-accepted changes are equally visible from an engineering point of view (equally listed on the future equivalent on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF18 , equally listed in release notes).
Fedora Marketing will decide what to highlight and advertise, e.g. in the formal release announcement that is sent as a press release, on trade shows, etc. Previously this has been also done by marketing, not by FESCo[1]. Hopefully the two groups will communicate at least as well as they have in the past.
Mirek
[1] AFAICS Fedora Marketing is quite good at choosing what to highlight (e.g. in F19, I thought one of the features they chose to highlight was not too exciting, but it received very positive and interested response from the press and reviews.)
[1] AFAICS Fedora Marketing is quite good at choosing what to highlight (e.g. in F19, I thought one of the features they chose to highlight was not too exciting, but it received very positive and interested response from the press and reviews.)
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