My Board member task: Fix the Feature Process

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 01/26/2012 04:50 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Since we didn't get to the Board member tasks at yesterday's meeting, jsmith
> suggested that the Board members send the goals they've selected (if they've
> done so already) to the mailing list to start discussion.
>
> I've talked to rbergeron and decided to take the task of fixing the Feature
> Process.  We've known for a long time that the Feature Process provides
> a useful service but at the expense of aggravating the people implementing
> features [sometimes unnecessarily], annoying the people deciding what's
> a feature [often unnecessarily], and without always achieving the
> collaboration needed to make release happen without slippage and/or last
> minute fixing of feature-driven brokenness [seems like at least every other
> release].
>
> These and other problems were collected by rbergeron and other impacted
> Fedora contributors on:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fixing_features
>
> I'll be working on taking those identified problems and turning out a new
> Feature Policy that FESCo can approve which addresses those issues.
>
> -Toshio
>
>
It would be great if you can make it before next Fedora. Instead of 
discussion about how many features we had to look at, we could focus on 
those with wide impact.

Marcela