On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:56:51AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: >> Mel, I'd probably put the Red Hat Brand coordination meeting earlier, >> something like Alpha availability +1 week. They need significant >> headroom in their schedule for things like video production. >> >> Paul > > Thanks, Paul (and sorry for the belated answer) - edited. Here's the > final generic one - final in the sense that we won't worry about this > until the start of F13, since this will certainly be tweaked at the > beginning of the next round. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Schedule/Generic > > Incidentally, we need someone to convert this file to taskjuggler format > - see https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/1. (yes, we're using > a ticketing system now. You'll see more of this as tasks trickle in...) I'll ask John about this -- in the past I believe he's taken care of this for teams. > PS: Yeah, I know, I should have made the first ticket "not everybody > contributes to Fedora" or something like that. "Some people think Fedora is just a kind of hat." ;-) > PPS: Note the level of detail at which I'm trying to write tickets. I > went a little overboard; they don't all have to be this detailed. > However, a relative newcomer should be able to read a ticket and > immediately know how to start - at the very least, the ticket should > point to instructions on how to find someone on IRC to ask about how to > get started. This means using URLs instead of vague references ("that > site thing") and putting in clear "here's how you tell when you are done" > criteria. This will also help us remember what the heck a ticket referred > to several years down the line. > > I'll repeat all this in a "now we have Trac!" email (which will point to > a wiki page asking people to do this sort of thing), but as a former QA > person, I couldn't resist an opportunity to advocate for good > ticket-writing skills. (Further suggestions welcome.) This is spot-on in my opinion. Actionable tickets are self-documenting and make collaboration and contribution a snap. Nice work. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
