> 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. +1 > - 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 > > -- > Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr. > Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com > Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org > gpg key : AD0E0C41 > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
