Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

[John Poelstra]

Jesse Keating said the following on 08/06/2009 11:37 AM Pacific Time:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 14:21 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said: 
>>>> From the sidelines it seems that there is a confusion on what the %
>>>> actually means.  Some think that 100% means "ready to be tested" and
>>>> others think that 100% means "It's been tested, the final builds are in
>>>> and all known and cared about bugs are fixed".
>>> My understanding was the later. All working tested and ready to go.
>>> What is it meant to mean.
>> Yeah, I think this is sort of an issue with pushing everything down
>> to a simple number.
>>
>> In my view, '100%' would mean "I'm done with this, and not touching
>> it modulo bugs." It can have a lower percentage and still be testable.
>>
>> Bill
>>
> 
> So really, we need 2 things.
> 
> 1) a definition of a status that the feature wrangler and FESCo agree
> upon to be "done enough" for Alpha / Feature Freeze.
> 
> 2) a % number that indicates #1
> 
> 

All we need to do to fix #1 is clarify the policy which the Feature 
Wrangler seeks to follow and help administer.  It has always been a 
percentage to measure the completeness of implementing the feature as 
described on the feature page.

We seek to been feature complete (100%) or "testable" (no percentage 
defined in the current policy--this would address #2) at Feature Freeze 
so those features can be tested in the test releases (Alpha & Beta).

John