Hi, folks. As I hinted a bit, and as some of you might know from IRC, I've spent the last ~24 hours on something of an epic Wiki revision spree. I made some fairly major and possibly significant changes, so under the 'ask forgiveness' principle I thought I'd post a quick summary here. * As already mentioned, the "Change Deadlines" are no more. They are now "Milestone Freezes". See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes . (Yeah, I can't decide on the capitalization). All (I think) significant linking pages have been updated appropriately. The new page should, I hope, form a useful and succinct guide to how the milestone freezes actually work. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle has been extensively updated and overhauled to reflect the current Fedora release process. I have added links to it to quite a lot of pages as I went along. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Repositories is an entirely new page which specifically documents the Fedora repositories. Again, I have added links to this page from several other pages. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO is extensively overhauled. I ditched the huge, weird tables full of Xs which didn't appear to convey any useful information at all. Stuff that was about using the SCM, not actually about doing updates, was removed (see next line item). The rest of the content has been heavily modified and updated to reflect current practice and policies and, well, just be better. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintenance_guide has been created from three (and a bit) sources: the package maintenance bits from the "Package update HOWTO", the "Using Fedora GIT" page which it is a rename of, and the "Using_git_FAQ_for_package_maintainers" page which now redirects to it. Having stuff about using the SCM in three different places, and half of it outdated since Fedora 14, seemed a bad idea. I believe it subsumes all the still-valid and useful content from all three sources, and adds some new and updated information. I like the format for the main guide/walkthrough, with the expandable notes for each step, but yell if you don't. * Various pages were adjusted to link or redirect to the above two pages. * There's a "Change Wrangler" page now - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Change_Wrangler - and some things which used to link to Jaroslav personally now link there (or to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management , whichever is appropriate). * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview was extensively overhauled. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy was adjusted to match the other changes. Nothing about the actual *policy it sets* was adjusted (at least not intentionally, please do check for mistakes), but various names were changed, links were redirected, and so on. Some of its descriptions of procedures were adjusted to reflect reality, principally in regards to Bodhi enabling and the early Branched period. * The old "Feature Freeze Policy" (which had been search-and-replaced to the "Change Freeze Policy", which caused it to finally cease to bear *any* resemblance to reality whatsoever) and "Branch Freeze Policy" pages have been effectively factored out of existence. The "Feature Freeze" is replaced by the Change "freezes" / checkpoints described at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy and by the milestone freezes. The "Branch Freeze" is replaced by the concept of the "Bodhi enabling point", documented at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling (it now redirects to that page), and invoked in various other places where appropriate. The changes freeze policy page - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes_Freeze_Policy - is a kind of 'manual redirect' pointing to the other pages, as it's not clear which one someone who wound up at it would be looking for. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Branched was somewhat overhauled. * I did a whole ton of smaller stuff as I went through - various pages got small updates, links were redirected and added (e.g. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers has rather more useful links in "Procedures, Policies and Guides" now), etc etc etc. You can check my Contributions page - https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Adamwill&offset=&limit=500&target=Adamwill - for the whole record, and to check my work. * I also just did a quick blast through the QA space making some updates here and there - some light touches to pretty much all the 'primary' pages, QA, QA/Join, the Test Day and release validation SOPs, etc etc. Again, check my contribution history for the details. I hope people find these contributions useful and not the contrary! I'm hoping the Life Cycle page, the Repositories page, and the updated Package update HOWTO and Package maintenance guide particularly will be useful for folks, and the more reality-reflecting Updates Policy page and the new Milestone freezes page will make the freeze process clearer to people (which was my motivation coming into this whole thing). It all just seemed like such a damn mess that burning it down, fixing it, and asking forgiveness seemed like the best plan :) and of course it's a wiki, so it's not like anything I changed is lost forever. Thanks folks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
