Fedora 10 Beta Freeze (Spins)

[John Poelstra]

Jesse Keating said the following on 09/16/2008 08:32 AM Pacific Time:
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:45 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Yes it sounds like we need to. I'm taking the categories as an indicator 
>> now, but maybe that's not what you use and flip when a spin is accepted 
>> or not.
> 
> Well, this process is still a bit... new, so I'm not surprised there is
> some rough road.  I think we (rel-eng) has been expecting John Poelstra
> to bring these spins for approval to our attention, just as he brings
> features to FESCo's attention.  I'm not sure /he/ was expecting that
> though, so it would not be surprising that some things haven't bee
> communicated.

Yes I was not clear on exactly what the process is and still am not.

I apologize for the confusion I created by changing the category to 
FeatureAcceptedF10.

I changed a couple of them and then stopped when I realized that it 
didn't make complete sense as the "feature process" I help manage 
relates specifically to features approved by FESCo.  Those features are 
listed here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList.

I asked a few people what the process around spins was supposed to be, 
but couldn't get any clear answers.  I should have posted to 
fedora-devel list and sought clarification.  It seemed odd to me that 
all our documentation describes how FESCo "accepts" features that are 
listed here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList and 
then to start adding Spins to the same page which go through a similar, 
but more different process that aren't exactly "accepted" by FESCo, as I 
understand it.  Forgive me if I've made this too complicated :)

I see two processes going on here which I perceive as follows:

1) "FESCo feature" process
--clearly documented here what happens when and by who: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Process

2) Spins process
--No process flow that I have found defined that I can figure out 
exactly which part I am supposed to be helping with nor is it clearly 
defined how the approval/acceptance process is tracked and where they 
end up or are listed once said approval/acceptance/rejection has taken 
place.

At present I can't commit the time to manage or define the process 
around spins approval/acceptance, but could help with drawing a 
flowchart if that helps clarify things.

John