<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Dan Mashal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.mashal@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.mashal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Josh Boyer <<a href="mailto:jwboyer@gmail.com">jwboyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Sure. FESCo doesn't care if it's a feature or not.<br>
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</div><div class="im">> That's why it's no longer called the Feature process. FESCo is an<br>
> engineering committee and has no business determining if something is<br>
> a Feature in an upcoming release of the distro. That is a marketing<br>
> task. The new process focuses on technical changes within the distro<br>
> and whether those changes require cooperation between maintainers or<br>
> additional help or oversight.<br>
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</div>Maybe I still misunderstand, but what this email says is instead of<br>
FESCo, an educated group of people deciding on features that can be<br>
extremely technical, they have no business either making even a<br>
recommendation and marketing is now handling this?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, FESCo will still do the _engineering_ work of reviewing the proposed changes, ensuring the impact is known and coordinated, and so on. All of the FESCo-accepted changes are equally visible from an engineering point of view (equally listed on the future equivalent on <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF18">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:FeatureAcceptedF18</a> , equally listed in release notes).<br>
</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Fedora Marketing will decide what to highlight and advertise, e.g. in the formal release announcement that is sent as a press release, on trade shows, etc. Previously this has been also done by marketing, not by FESCo[1]. Hopefully the two groups will communicate at least as well as they have in the past.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"> Mirek<br><br>[1] AFAICS Fedora Marketing is quite good at choosing what to highlight (e.g. in F19, I thought one of the features they chose to highlight was not too exciting, but it received very positive and interested response from the press and reviews.)<br>
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