In preparation to asking FESCo to amend the feature process, I'd like to
find out if there is going to be an uprising from y'all against the
idea.
Currently, the feature process does not specifically require release
notes or documentation, nor provide for FESCo to block a feature because
of missing or poor feature documentation. We think the feature
policy[1] should be amended[2] to require this.
It is clear in the spirit and the letter of the current policy that some
amount of content from the feature owners is required. The policy makes
these related points:
* It's a feature, we're trying to make noise about it, and the
rest of the world needs meaningful content about the feature
* One of the specific goals of the feature process is to make
release notes easier to create, as well as more accurate
* Completing all the parts of the feature process demonstrates
the commitment to seeing the feature through to release
What could be covered in a release note is documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/WhatToDocument
Never seen that page before? It is linked from here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Process
Thanks for your attention to this. A great distribution is made even
greater by the quality of its documentation. The Fedora release notes
have been an outstanding community effort for many years. The process
we have created in Docs allows a small effort from many of you[3] to
snowball into the best release notes of any Linux distribution.
- Karsten
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
[2] Specific amendments:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy#Proposing_Official_Features
First sentence: should => must
Item 11: Note added: "This item cannot be made ''not applicable''."
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy#Dropping_Features
Add a bullet that reads: "Feature stand-alone wiki page is
incomplete."
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats
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