On 01/18/2013 08:17 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The spins team will tell you straight up that their process is horribly
broken.
Is it the "process" that's broken, or simply a lack of sufficient
resources to execute the process (people, computers, working code?)
From what I've seen, overall, the Fedora "process" is not
significantly different from any other large-scale software
engineering project. When a project takes a schedule hit like Fedora
did, the critical path stuff like Anaconda sucks up people and
attention, and everyone off the critical path has the "luxury" of
planning for the next release. ;-)
The problem this time round was the one person who could engineer it all
was AWOL.
Secondary to this the current wiki based Spins process has no method of
notification of new Spins "Ready for Wrangler"/"Ready for board" etc
etc. It should be moved to trac, and all notifications should got to the
spins list. As it stands the wiki watch feature only works if you are
constantly logged in, which is not feasible. It is possible to link this
to a user wiki account, but how this would then be linked to Fedora's
FAS system I have no idea.
I'm considering putting myself up for wrangler this next release (it's
not like I have anything better to do - not!), I can certainly
contribute to engineering a better trac system at the very least.
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