Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:11:01AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> At FUDCon Milan, we discussed using Trac to manage Spin process - it's >> actually very similar process. And for tracking stuff I think it's more >> suitable than Bugzilla -

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:50:01AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Don't think it makes more sense then the percentage in wiki. I > remember migration from Ruby 1.8.7 to Ruby 1.9.3. We needed to > adjust every ruby package in fedora and rebuild them. Some of them > were piece of cake, some needed patch

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:11:01AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > At FUDCon Milan, we discussed using Trac to manage Spin process - it's > actually very similar process. And for tracking stuff I think it's more > suitable than Bugzilla - custom states, better overviews + use Wiki just > for featu

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Trackign them in bugzilla makes so much sense and seems so blatantly > obvious now that you said it... its kinda hard to understand why > that hasn't been done from the start. Please make it so :) https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/tic

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:39:03PM -0500, John Dulaney wrote: > > a feature, especially a crit path feature, is not ready for prime > > time. > > Obviously, if a feature is not %100 by feature freeze, then it > > needs to be > > dropped. I would even venture to sugge

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 12/06/2012 12:50 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: Dne 6.12.2012 10:14, Panu Matilainen napsal(a): On 12/05/2012 09:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: One approach: a convention where each feature gets a tracking bug, and then various tasks can be marked as blocking that. *Then*, each release can have a trac

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 6.12.2012 10:14, Panu Matilainen napsal(a): On 12/05/2012 09:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: One approach: a convention where each feature gets a tracking bug, and then various tasks can be marked as blocking that. *Then*, each release can have a tracking bug for accepted features themselves,

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 12/05/2012 09:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: One approach: a convention where each feature gets a tracking bug, and then various tasks can be marked as blocking that. *Then*, each release can have a tracking bug for accepted features themselves, and the tool to produce the chart can simply be po

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Rahul Sundaram [06/12/2012 00:39] : > > Yeah. This makes sense. Wiki for tracking isn't a bright idea really. And the time-tracking is already built in to bugzilla so most of the code needed is already written. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedora

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
> One approach: a convention where each feature gets a tracking bug, and then > various tasks can be marked as blocking that. *Then*, each release can have > a tracking bug for accepted features themselves, and the tool to produce > the > chart can simply be pointed at that and follow the tree down

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Fabian Deutsch
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:19:15PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > > I like burndown charts. Low overhead, easily read, and generally more > > > concrete than guesses at percentage done. I wonder if there's a way we can > > > easily provide a widget in the wiki for keeping them up to date. This:

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:19:15PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > I like burndown charts. Low overhead, easily read, and generally more > > concrete than guesses at percentage done. I wonder if there's a way we can > > easily provide a widget in the wiki for keeping them up to date. This: > > htt

Re: features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Fabian Deutsch
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:39:03PM -0500, John Dulaney wrote: > > a feature, especially a crit path feature, is not ready for prime time. > > Obviously, if a feature is not %100 by feature freeze, then it needs to be > > dropped. I would even venture to suggest that we include in the SOP > > som

features and percentages [was Re: RFC: Feature process improvements]

2012-12-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:39:03PM -0500, John Dulaney wrote: > a feature, especially a crit path feature, is not ready for prime time. > Obviously, if a feature is not %100 by feature freeze, then it needs to be > dropped. I would even venture to suggest that we include in the SOP > something al

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-12-04 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 12/01/2012 02:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:42:15AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing features or critical path components". What's the threshol

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-12-03 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 30.11.2012 18:16, Matthew Miller napsal(a): On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:28:52PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: I'd love to see the feature process to be turned opposite, i.e. make the feature auto-approved as default. It could look like: In general, features _have_ been approved by default, so in

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:42:15AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: > > > I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing > > > features or critical path components". What's the threshold for > > > defaults? (LVM, for a spe

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:42:15AM -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: > > I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing > > features or critical path components". What's the threshold for > > defaults? (LVM, for a specific example.) What's the threshold for a > > change to a critic

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:28:52PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > I'd love to see the feature process to be turned opposite, i.e. make > the feature auto-approved as default. It could look like: In general, features _have_ been approved by default, so in practice, this isn't a major change. It partic

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing features > > or > > critical path components". What's the threshold for defaults? (LVM, for a > > specific example.) What's the threshold for a change to a critical

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Well fair enough, but at the moment these have to go through the > feature process, which is extremely cumbersome for a routine upgrade. > > Take a look at: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GHC741 > > That's a huge amount of

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > I think we do need more clarity on "system-wide/defaults changing features or > critical path components". What's the threshold for defaults? (LVM, for a > specific example.) What's the threshold for a change to a critical path > component?

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:32 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Lacks clarification on what's considered an feature. The proposal continues to use the current wide definition - it only treats some differently. > Arguably it should be mandatory for feature owners to provide or work with

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-30 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 28.11.2012 21:08, Miloslav Trmač napsal(a): Hello, this proposal was recently linked in various places, so let's formally introduce it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Feature_process This an incremental change, not a major overhaul designed to solve all problems. The benefits

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 05:38 -0500, Marcela Maslanova wrote: > > Lacks clarification on what's considered an feature. > > > > Arguably it should be mandatory for feature owners to provide or work > > with the documentation and or marketing communities documenting and > > publishing what benefits c

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:31:25AM -0700, pete wrote: > It's actually 'fedora_requires_release_note' - you can find it with the > other, more familiar tags. > > The response from Chris reminded me of the value of brevity, so I'll add > one comment b

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread pete
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:03 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 15:01:21 -0700, > > > >There are several mechanisms for a developer to get their work into the > >release notes. The rel-notes BZ tag was wholly unused during this cycle, to > >the best of my knowledge. There were n

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Marcela Maslanova
- Original Message - > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 10:50:48 AM > Subject: Re: RFC: Feature process improvements > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:56:04PM -0600

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Marcela Maslanova
- Original Message - > From: "Matthew Miller" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:21:01 AM > Subject: Re: RFC: Feature process improvements > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:08:59PM +0100, Mi

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Marcela Maslanova
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:32:35 AM > Subject: Re: RFC: Feature process improvements > > On 11/28/2012 08:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > Hello, > &

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:56:04PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: > > > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. individual > > > package version upgrades) > > > > I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > >

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread John Dulaney
I would suggest that we create a clear SOP for fall back planning in case a feature, especially a crit path feature, is not ready for prime time. Obviously, if a feature is not %100 by feature freeze, then it needs to be dropped. I would even venture to suggest that we include in the SOP somethi

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:08:59PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > this proposal was recently linked in various places, so let's formally > introduce it: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Feature_process As discussed earlier, I liked the three-tier approach better, but I'm in favor of

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:23:09PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. individual > > package version upgrades) > I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > the end of each release cycle for someone to compar

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/28/2012 08:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, this proposal was recently linked in various places, so let's formally introduce it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Feature_process This an incremental change, not a major overhaul designed to solve all problems. The benefits ex

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 15:01:21 -0700, There are several mechanisms for a developer to get their work into the release notes. The rel-notes BZ tag was wholly unused during this cycle, to the best of my knowledge. There were no bugs filed against the release-notes bugzilla product to request inc

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Pete Travis
> I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions of > packages and add something in the release notes for each major GUI / > programming language / user application that got a big update. > > Rich. > I only

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones said: > > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. individual > > package version upgrades) > > I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions of > p

Re: RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
It's not clear where this should be discussed? Editing the wiki talk page? On this list? Anyway, I'll kick this off by saying: > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. individual > package version upgrades) I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better tow

RFC: Feature process improvements

2012-11-28 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, this proposal was recently linked in various places, so let's formally introduce it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mmaslano/Feature_process This an incremental change, not a major overhaul designed to solve all problems. The benefits expected from this proposal: * Making proposed fea