On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:45 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Brian Pepple <bpepple <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Better_Test_Plans > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Empty_Feature_Page_Sections > > Ugh, developers _already_ struggle with filling in all the sections, which > sometimes simply don't apply to the feature, how is even more bureaucracy going > to help? Let me take a past feature as an example (for lack of ability to > predict the future): try writing a complete detailed test plan for > FeatureKDE4... And no, you don't have 3 years to write it and I don't think the > wiki will scale to megabytes of text in a single feature page. ;-) And in > addition to sections just not relevant to the specific feature, there's also > the issue of developer time being wasted on bureaucracy, time which not all > developers have: the FeatureKDE4 page ended up as complete as it now is because > we spent lots of time on it, some feature pages are in a much worse state, and > I don't think pressure like the above "process improvements" is going to help, > because this isn't laziness, it's genuine lack of time. Think about it this way: it means that there will be no features ready for approval when the time comes. So as a side-effect it achieves the "Reduce FESco overhead" goal... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
