[Fedora-music-list] List of packages

[Brendan Jones]

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 at gmail.com> 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.