Package review SIG work

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Feb 3 18:51:20 UTC 2009


I would like see if it's possible to get the package review SIG moving
again.  I personally have been very low on time since Fudcon but
things are starting to let up.

I have two questions:

Who is interested in working with a package review SIG?  I'll include
some possible SIG agenda items at the end of this message.

How should the SIG conduct business?

Within Fedora this generally happens via IRC meetings, but I'm not
sure how that would work out because we really do have reviewers from
all over the planet and picking a single time for an IRC meeting will
inevitably leave some folks out.  Plus there's been some recent
backlash relating to conducting business on IRC which I'm sensitive
to.

So, I see a couple of options:

1) Have more than one meeting time and rotate through them.

2) Figure out how to conduct reasonable business (with an agenda,
   time-limited discussion and votes) on a mailing list.

I am willing to handle the various duties while the SIG gets
organized.  I will follow this thread for a couple of days and
summarize the responses.


Here's a random list of potential SIG agenda items:

Getting https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Package_Review into shape.

Dealing with significantly time-consuming reviews and possible
multiple-reviewer scenarios.  Should the SIG identify these reviews
and attempt to parcel them out to groups of reviewers?

Addressing the growing number of NEEDSPONSOR tickets.

Forming a merge review priority list: finishing up the
F9MergeReviewTarget ticket and identifying the next set of reviews to
tackle.

Metrics.

Proposing to manage the ReviewGuidelines document.

 - J<




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