Re: Change proposal: make Change proposals more obvious

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:59 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:51 AM Aleksandra Fedorova <alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Adam,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 1:50 AM Adam Williamson
> > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, so this is a bit meta, but I couldn't resist :P
> > >
> > > Since the Fedora 37 proposed Changes got posted, we have got the now-
> > > inevitable round of news stories which talk about proposed Changes as
> > > if they're approved already, like this one:
> > >
> > > https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/04/27/fedora_starts_to_simplify_linux/
> > >
> > > Could we consider, in future, posting a clarification for journalists
> > > in flaming six-foot high letters (I exaggerate only slightly) at the
> > > top of *every* proposed Change page, and *every* official mail relating
> > > to a proposed Change, which clarifies that it's *proposed* not
> > > *accepted*, and that means it might not happen? I feel like we'd have
> > > to firefight less if we could do that.
> >
> > Thanks for bringing it up. I had exactly the same feeling about
> > several Fedora-related news recently.
> >
> > I think adding a disclaimer like:
> >
> >    This is a Change Proposal. For details about our community-driven
> > open Change Process refer to the doc [..]
> >
> > could help.
> >
> > I would leave it to Ben to decide how much ASCII-art it needs.
> >
>
> We could also start the email subject with "CHANGE PROPOSAL" instead of "Change"

Or "PROPOSAL" while dropping change entirely from the subject (it can
remain in the body description).




-- 
Chris Murphy
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