FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-07-03

[Kevin Kofler]

Brian Pepple <bpepple <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Better_Test_Plans
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Empty_Feature_Page_Sections

Ugh, developers _already_ struggle with filling in all the sections, which 
sometimes simply don't apply to the feature, how is even more bureaucracy going 
to help? Let me take a past feature as an example (for lack of ability to 
predict the future): try writing a complete detailed test plan for 
FeatureKDE4... And no, you don't have 3 years to write it and I don't think the 
wiki will scale to megabytes of text in a single feature page. ;-) And in 
addition to sections just not relevant to the specific feature, there's also 
the issue of developer time being wasted on bureaucracy, time which not all 
developers have: the FeatureKDE4 page ended up as complete as it now is because 
we spent lots of time on it, some feature pages are in a much worse state, and 
I don't think pressure like the above "process improvements" is going to help, 
because this isn't laziness, it's genuine lack of time.

        Kevin Kofler