Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 5.12.2012 21:20, Bill Nottingham napsal(a):

===
#fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-12-05)
===


Meeting started by notting at 18:07:27 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-12-05/fesco.2012-12-05-18.07.log.html
.


Meeting summary
---
* 896 - Refine Feature Process  (notting, 18:07:50)
   * AGREED: Feature process modification: features are announced on
 devel-announce by feature wrangler once wrangler verifies feature
 page content (+:9, -:0)  (notting, 18:34:51)


Well done! Thank you.


   * AGREED: FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week after the
 devel-announce announcement. (+:8, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:46:03)


Now the rest of the change: "The feature is automatically accepted (no 
FESCo involved at all) after one week if there is no negative feedback 
on ML. Otherwise it must be evaluated by FESCo."



   * AGREED: mitr (and others) will continue to discuss specific
 improvements  (notting, 18:49:18)





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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:
>> * 896 - Refine Feature Process  (notting, 18:07:50)
>>* AGREED: Feature process modification: features are announced on
>>  devel-announce by feature wrangler once wrangler verifies feature
>>  page content (+:9, -:0)  (notting, 18:34:51)
>
>
> Well done! Thank you.
>
>
>>* AGREED: FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week after the
>>  devel-announce announcement. (+:8, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:46:03)
>
>
> Now the rest of the change: "The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo
> involved at all) after one week if there is no negative feedback on ML.
> Otherwise it must be evaluated by FESCo."

At the least, that should be rephrased.  Negative feedback isn't the
thing you really want to trigger off of.  It's more "if there is no
significant discussion" or something similar.  You can have something
with a lot of positive discussion that is still a large and invasive
Feature that should be reviewed by FESCo.

Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 09:07 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: 
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:
> >> * 896 - Refine Feature Process  (notting, 18:07:50)
> >>* AGREED: Feature process modification: features are announced on
> >>  devel-announce by feature wrangler once wrangler verifies feature
> >>  page content (+:9, -:0)  (notting, 18:34:51)
> >
> >
> > Well done! Thank you.
> >
> >
> >>* AGREED: FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week after the
> >>  devel-announce announcement. (+:8, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:46:03)
> >
> >
> > Now the rest of the change: "The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo
> > involved at all) after one week if there is no negative feedback on ML.
> > Otherwise it must be evaluated by FESCo."
> 
> At the least, that should be rephrased.  Negative feedback isn't the
> thing you really want to trigger off of.  It's more "if there is no
> significant discussion" or something similar.  You can have something
> with a lot of positive discussion that is still a large and invasive
> Feature that should be reviewed by FESCo.

Let's rephrase it:
The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo involved at all) after
one week if the submitter of feature or anybody else explicitly does not
ask for FESCo review and approval.


> Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
> during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
> Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
> happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.

I still hope that some kind of auto-accepting of features will be
approved by FESCo. I personally would vote for it if it is reasonably
worded.
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Tomas Mraz  wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 09:07 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:
>> >> * 896 - Refine Feature Process  (notting, 18:07:50)
>> >>* AGREED: Feature process modification: features are announced on
>> >>  devel-announce by feature wrangler once wrangler verifies feature
>> >>  page content (+:9, -:0)  (notting, 18:34:51)
>> >
>> >
>> > Well done! Thank you.
>> >
>> >
>> >>* AGREED: FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week after the
>> >>  devel-announce announcement. (+:8, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:46:03)
>> >
>> >
>> > Now the rest of the change: "The feature is automatically accepted (no 
>> > FESCo
>> > involved at all) after one week if there is no negative feedback on ML.
>> > Otherwise it must be evaluated by FESCo."
>>
>> At the least, that should be rephrased.  Negative feedback isn't the
>> thing you really want to trigger off of.  It's more "if there is no
>> significant discussion" or something similar.  You can have something
>> with a lot of positive discussion that is still a large and invasive
>> Feature that should be reviewed by FESCo.
>
> Let's rephrase it:
> The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo involved at all) after
> one week if the submitter of feature or anybody else explicitly does not
> ask for FESCo review and approval.

Sure, better at least from a starting point.

>> Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
>> during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
>> Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
>> happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.
>
> I still hope that some kind of auto-accepting of features will be
> approved by FESCo. I personally would vote for it if it is reasonably
> worded.

As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
then I might be for auto-accepting of those.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 6.12.2012 17:02, Tomas Mraz napsal(a):

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 09:07 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:

* 896 - Refine Feature Process  (notting, 18:07:50)
* AGREED: Feature process modification: features are announced on
  devel-announce by feature wrangler once wrangler verifies feature
  page content (+:9, -:0)  (notting, 18:34:51)


Well done! Thank you.



* AGREED: FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week after the
  devel-announce announcement. (+:8, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 18:46:03)


Now the rest of the change: "The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo
involved at all) after one week if there is no negative feedback on ML.
Otherwise it must be evaluated by FESCo."

At the least, that should be rephrased.  Negative feedback isn't the
thing you really want to trigger off of.  It's more "if there is no
significant discussion" or something similar.  You can have something
with a lot of positive discussion that is still a large and invasive
Feature that should be reviewed by FESCo.

Let's rephrase it:
The feature is automatically accepted (no FESCo involved at all) after
one week if the submitter of feature or anybody else explicitly does not
ask for FESCo review and approval.


This is definitely better wording.





Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.


This proposal entirely avoids discussion of "leaf-features", "self 
contained features" or "complex features with system-wide impact" since 
there will never by any reasonable metrics you can apply to decide. If 
you can't decide what feature you are dealing with, how you want to 
judge if FESCo should be approving it or not.


If some FESCo member thinks that is should be approved by FESCo, s/he 
still has the power to open ticket for FESCo meeting. The same power as 
other Fedora community members.


Actually I would be very interested to hear why there should not be 
"auto-approving". Please enlighten me.



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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:
>>> Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
>>> during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
>>> Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
>>> happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.
>
>
> This proposal entirely avoids discussion of "leaf-features", "self contained
> features" or "complex features with system-wide impact" since there will
> never by any reasonable metrics you can apply to decide. If you can't decide
> what feature you are dealing with, how you want to judge if FESCo should be
> approving it or not.
>
> If some FESCo member thinks that is should be approved by FESCo, s/he still
> has the power to open ticket for FESCo meeting. The same power as other
> Fedora community members.
>
> Actually I would be very interested to hear why there should not be
> "auto-approving". Please enlighten me.

I explained my reasoning in the part of the email you cut off in your
reply.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/06/2012 04:20 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:

As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
then I might be for auto-accepting of those.


Agreed

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:20:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
> needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
> me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
> there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
> then I might be for auto-accepting of those.

Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or big thing
which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and big technical
changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".

Or "Alterations" or "Evolutions" or "Disruptions" (well, that's a little
negative so not that). For example adding systemd is a feature, while making
it the default is a big change. Same with firewalld. UsrMove wasn't really a
feature *at all*, but definitely a big change.


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:20:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
>> needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
>> me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
>> there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
>> then I might be for auto-accepting of those.
>
> Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or big thing
> which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and big technical
> changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".

The meeting minutes showed that Fedora Marketing is already filtering
the current Feature list and picking the important ones to highlight, so
I don't think continuing to call the small ones Features is accurate.

I mean, sure it could be done but it seems to make more sense to change
the name of the small ones instead.  Or just have them go to release
notes.  The main point is, calling them all the same thing is confusing
and leads to a basically useless "Feature list".

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 6.12.2012 18:23, Josh Boyer napsal(a):

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:

Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it.


This proposal entirely avoids discussion of "leaf-features", "self contained
features" or "complex features with system-wide impact" since there will
never by any reasonable metrics you can apply to decide. If you can't decide
what feature you are dealing with, how you want to judge if FESCo should be
approving it or not.

If some FESCo member thinks that is should be approved by FESCo, s/he still
has the power to open ticket for FESCo meeting. The same power as other
Fedora community members.

Actually I would be very interested to hear why there should not be
"auto-approving". Please enlighten me.

I explained my reasoning in the part of the email you cut off in your
reply.

josh


Sorry Josh, but I can't find any reasons in your quote:

"Also, there was dissent already in the "auto-approving" of leaf-features
during the meeting discussion so I am not sure that auto-accepting of
Features in general given a lack of response is ever going to actually
happen.  I personally wouldn't vote for it."


Only reason I see is "there was dissent". So based on some dissent, you 
are against "auto-approving"?


I'd love to hear why there is dissent. What is the reason for dissent.


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 6.12.2012 21:40, Josh Boyer napsal(a):

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Miller  wrote:

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:20:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
then I might be for auto-accepting of those.

Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or big thing
which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and big technical
changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".

The meeting minutes showed that Fedora Marketing is already filtering
the current Feature list and picking the important ones to highlight, so
I don't think continuing to call the small ones Features is accurate.

I mean, sure it could be done but it seems to make more sense to change
the name of the small ones instead.  Or just have them go to release
notes.  The main point is, calling them all the same thing is confusing
and leads to a basically useless "Feature list".

josh


Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create 
feature page for it. Period.


I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when 
it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. The only think matters is 
that the Feature is widely advertised and that the community can provide 
early feedback. Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see 
something like FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if 
feature is feature, major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, 
since it really doesn't matter.


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/07/2012 09:28 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:


Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create 
feature page for it. Period.


That describes the current state and is your point of view.

To me an "Feature" is a completely different thing.



I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, 
when it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. 


It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on 
Mailing list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )


The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and 
that the community can provide early feedback. 


No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from 
users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components 
that might get affected by that feature.


Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see something like 
FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if feature is 
feature, major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, since it 
really doesn't matter.


FESCO is for that, as in to accept,decide and determine the wider impact 
an feature might have to the whole projects eco system and arguably the 
entity that's responsible for it to be integrated into the distribution 
in as painless manner for users and developers alike. ( from my pov ).


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 10:28 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: 
> Dne 6.12.2012 21:40, Josh Boyer napsal(a):
> > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Miller  
> > wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:20:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >>> As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a Feature
> >>> needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.  Feature to
> >>> me is something important enough that it shouldn't be auto-accepted.  If
> >>> there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a Feature,
> >>> then I might be for auto-accepting of those.
> >> Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or big thing
> >> which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and big technical
> >> changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".
> > The meeting minutes showed that Fedora Marketing is already filtering
> > the current Feature list and picking the important ones to highlight, so
> > I don't think continuing to call the small ones Features is accurate.
> >
> > I mean, sure it could be done but it seems to make more sense to change
> > the name of the small ones instead.  Or just have them go to release
> > notes.  The main point is, calling them all the same thing is confusing
> > and leads to a basically useless "Feature list".
> >
> > josh
> 
> Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create 
> feature page for it. Period.
> 
> I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when 
> it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. The only think matters is 
> that the Feature is widely advertised and that the community can provide 
> early feedback. Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see 
> something like FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if 
> feature is feature, major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, 
> since it really doesn't matter.

Maybe we can persuade Josh if we do s/Feature/A change that is worth
announcing and potentially also tracking or advertising/.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message -
> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 10:28 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Dne 6.12.2012 21:40, Josh Boyer napsal(a):
> > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Matthew Miller
> > >  wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:20:22AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >>> As I said in the meeting yesterday, I think the definition of a
> > >>> Feature
> > >>> needs to be cleared up before we can really tackle this one.
> > >>>  Feature to
> > >>> me is something important enough that it shouldn't be
> > >>> auto-accepted.  If
> > >>> there is some other class of thing people submit that isn't a
> > >>> Feature,
> > >>> then I might be for auto-accepting of those.
> > >> Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or
> > >> big thing
> > >> which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and
> > >> big technical
> > >> changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".
> > > The meeting minutes showed that Fedora Marketing is already
> > > filtering
> > > the current Feature list and picking the important ones to
> > > highlight, so
> > > I don't think continuing to call the small ones Features is
> > > accurate.
> > >
> > > I mean, sure it could be done but it seems to make more sense to
> > > change
> > > the name of the small ones instead.  Or just have them go to
> > > release
> > > notes.  The main point is, calling them all the same thing is
> > > confusing
> > > and leads to a basically useless "Feature list".
> > >
> > > josh
> > 
> > Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create
> > feature page for it. Period.
> > 
> > I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact,
> > when
> > it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. The only think
> > matters is
> > that the Feature is widely advertised and that the community can
> > provide
> > early feedback. Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see
> > something like FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided
> > if
> > feature is feature, major change, alteration, evolution or
> > disruption,
> > since it really doesn't matter.
> 
> Maybe we can persuade Josh if we do s/Feature/A change that is worth
> announcing and potentially also tracking or advertising/.

Yep, as the main idea is to collect as much ideas/changes to be 
publicly announced and if we say only part of these are Features
AFTER discussion/review - I'm ok with that.

As it's the goal - to know about changes people do not consider
features but definitely could be raised to the feature status.

The common example I see as a wrangler - hey, I'm not sure this
functionality is worth creating feature, and you know, the process,
and nobody would care... But once the feature is accepted - wow,
I got so much response, from all people from different projects
that touch the area and we're now working on integration etc. ->
*VISIBILITY*.

Do not call it "Feature Process" but "Planning process" - as it
fits the decision to create F19 schedule after we know the scope
of it based on proposals. And then - I'm ok with even more terms -
Feature for something we really want to feature and make Marketing's
life easier - so not based on scope, but marketing and define
more "boxes"... 

Jaroslav

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 7.12.2012 11:13, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a):

On 12/07/2012 09:28 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:


Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create 
feature page for it. Period.


That describes the current state and is your point of view.

To me an "Feature" is a completely different thing.


Could you be more specific please?





I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, 
when it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. 


It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on 
Mailing list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )


They are probably not so obvious to me. But I can imagine several types 
of responses on ML:


1) No response at all. This is positive, since the feature was probably 
discussed on different places previously, such as SIG ML or is 
non-controversial.
2) Positive response. Everybody probably agrees that Gnome 3 should be 
updated in next release.

3) Controversial feature, such as /tmp on tmpfs
4) Only negative feedback. E.g. lets move to yet another init system.
5) WTF feedback. Why are you even proposing this minor update of this 
unknown library as a feature (but this is non-category, since it will be 
probably rejected by Package Wrangler already)?


These are 5 categories of features I can imagine. Now please tell me if 
the categorization is not clear and if that is not obvious how to 
proceed with these.




The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and 
that the community can provide early feedback. 


No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback 
from users of those feature not necessary from developers of other 
components that might get affected by that feature.


Yes, nobody never cares until it is not late. I can't change that. But 
I'm trying. Announcing features in devel/devel-announce is definitely 
step in good direction.




Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see something like 
FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if feature is 
feature, major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, since it 
really doesn't matter.


FESCO is for that, as in to accept,decide and determine the wider 
impact an feature might have to the whole projects eco system and 
arguably the entity that's responsible for it to be integrated into 
the distribution in as painless manner for users and developers alike. 
( from my pov ).


FESCo's responsibilities does not change at all. The benefit will be 
that FESCo will be able to spent more time paying attention to features 
that are worth of attention. Don't forget that this discussion is 
initiative of FESCo members, who feels to be overwhelmed by 
non-important features, not mine.



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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/07/2012 11:13 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:

Dne 7.12.2012 11:13, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a):

On 12/07/2012 09:28 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:


Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create 
feature page for it. Period.


That describes the current state and is your point of view.

To me an "Feature" is a completely different thing.


Could you be more specific please?


For example major release for a component or a group of components







I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, 
when it will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. 


It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on 
Mailing list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )




You have to be subscribed to d the relevant mailing list and not 
ignoring the individual(s) responsible for the feature etc..


They are probably not so obvious to me. But I can imagine several 
types of responses on ML:


And what I'm pointing on are using mailing list for that.





The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and 
that the community can provide early feedback. 


No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback 
from users of those feature not necessary from developers of other 
components that might get affected by that feature.


Yes, nobody never cares until it is not late. I can't change that. But 
I'm trying. Announcing features in devel/devel-announce is definitely 
step in good direction.


What about all the other communities the feature might affect and the 
relevant party that is not subscribed devel/devel-announce in those 
communites?




Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see something like 
FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if feature is 
feature, major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, since it 
really doesn't matter.


FESCO is for that, as in to accept,decide and determine the wider 
impact an feature might have to the whole projects eco system and 
arguably the entity that's responsible for it to be integrated into 
the distribution in as painless manner for users and developers 
alike. ( from my pov ).


FESCo's responsibilities does not change at all. The benefit will be 
that FESCo will be able to spent more time paying attention to 
features that are worth of attention. Don't forget that this 
discussion is initiative of FESCo members, who feels to be overwhelmed 
by non-important features, not mine.




Yes and to do so you need to first and foremost know what is considered 
an feature and what you mentioned "Feature is something somebody 
considers important enough to create feature page for it. Period. " 
leaves them in the exactly same place as it is now.


As I have said before we cant fix the feature process until we have 
determined what's considered an feature in the first place and if the 
feature process is mandatory or not.


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Vít Ondruch  wrote:
>>> Alternately, "Feature" could be the term for the any small or big thing
>>> which is useful to track and tout for marketing purposes, and big
>>> technical
>>> changes could be, I dunno... "Major Changes".
>>
>> The meeting minutes showed that Fedora Marketing is already filtering
>> the current Feature list and picking the important ones to highlight, so
>> I don't think continuing to call the small ones Features is accurate.
>>
>> I mean, sure it could be done but it seems to make more sense to change
>> the name of the small ones instead.  Or just have them go to release
>> notes.  The main point is, calling them all the same thing is confusing
>> and leads to a basically useless "Feature list".
>>
> Feature is something somebody considers important enough to create feature
> page for it. Period.

We're going to disagree on this point.  It's OK that we disagree.

> I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it
> will be autocategorized by feedback on ML. The only think matters is that
> the Feature is widely advertised and that the community can provide early
> feedback. Please avoid bureaucracy. I would realy hate to see something like
> FFCo (Fedora Feature Committee), which would decided if feature is feature,
> major change, alteration, evolution or disruption, since it really doesn't
> matter.

It doesn't matter from a "get this thing into Fedora" standpoint.  It
very much matters from a marketing/communication standpoint.  If it
didn't matter, Fedora Marketing wouldn't be picking specific items out
of the overall Feature list.

The example I used in the meeting (which btw you should really go read
the full logs at this point because all I'm doing is repeating myself)
is that if you give a tech journalist a list of 10 Features, they can
write a pretty decent article about what is coming in the next Fedora
release.  If you give them a list of 20-30 Features, they're either
going to ignore you entirely or pick 10 Features they think are worth
writing about.

Some Features are more important than others.  I want FESCo involved
in reviwing the ones that are big, have an impact across the distro,
are somewhat controversial, and have the potential to require a lot of
coordination.  Whatever we call those, that is what I want reviewed.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message -
> It doesn't matter from a "get this thing into Fedora" standpoint.  It
> very much matters from a marketing/communication standpoint.  If it
> didn't matter, Fedora Marketing wouldn't be picking specific items
> out
> of the overall Feature list.
> 
> The example I used in the meeting (which btw you should really go
> read
> the full logs at this point because all I'm doing is repeating
> myself)
> is that if you give a tech journalist a list of 10 Features, they can
> write a pretty decent article about what is coming in the next Fedora
> release.  If you give them a list of 20-30 Features, they're either
> going to ignore you entirely or pick 10 Features they think are worth
> writing about.

That's the problem - FeatureList should not be used tech journalists
at all! It's internal tracking "tool". For journalists, we have Talking
Points [1] - originally written for Ambassadors! (And yep, good time to 
spin it up). We have Beats... Announcements based on these with picked
up the most important features without going into too much details -
easier for journalist to create a good article. Feature list changes
too often, it could be out of sync, feature pages are written for
technical people, usually hard to understand etc...

And yeah, as I understand - Features were created for marketing 
purposes. So let's not call that internal list features list but use
some other term and then with cooperation with marketing and docs
pick up let say ten most important things that happened in recent
release and feature them as The Features. But marketing POV should not
limit our development tracking ;-)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_talking_points

Jaroslav

> Some Features are more important than others.  I want FESCo involved
> in reviwing the ones that are big, have an impact across the distro,
> are somewhat controversial, and have the potential to require a lot
> of
> coordination.  Whatever we call those, that is what I want reviewed.
> 
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Vít Ondruch

Dne 7.12.2012 15:06, Jaroslav Reznik napsal(a):

- Original Message -

It doesn't matter from a "get this thing into Fedora" standpoint.  It
very much matters from a marketing/communication standpoint.  If it
didn't matter, Fedora Marketing wouldn't be picking specific items
out
of the overall Feature list.

The example I used in the meeting (which btw you should really go
read
the full logs at this point because all I'm doing is repeating
myself)
is that if you give a tech journalist a list of 10 Features, they can
write a pretty decent article about what is coming in the next Fedora
release.  If you give them a list of 20-30 Features, they're either
going to ignore you entirely or pick 10 Features they think are worth
writing about.

That's the problem - FeatureList should not be used tech journalists
at all! It's internal tracking "tool". For journalists, we have Talking
Points [1] - originally written for Ambassadors! (And yep, good time to
spin it up). We have Beats... Announcements based on these with picked
up the most important features without going into too much details -
easier for journalist to create a good article. Feature list changes
too often, it could be out of sync, feature pages are written for
technical people, usually hard to understand etc...

And yeah, as I understand - Features were created for marketing
purposes. So let's not call that internal list features list but use
some other term and then with cooperation with marketing and docs
pick up let say ten most important things that happened in recent
release and feature them as The Features. But marketing POV should not
limit our development tracking ;-)

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_talking_points

Jaroslav


Agree.


Some Features are more important than others.  I want FESCo involved
in reviwing the ones that are big, have an impact across the distro,
are somewhat controversial, and have the potential to require a lot
of
coordination.  Whatever we call those, that is what I want reviewed.


There is no reason why FESCo couldn't pick such important features by 
themselves and review them. And keep the rest auto-approved. I guess our 
views are not that different. You just try to apply some measure to 
categorize features (or whatever we call those) where I say it is not 
possible. The amount of response of ML might be good guide for that, 
since we don't have any better.


Vít


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
 wrote:
>> I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it
>> will be autocategorized by feedback on ML.
>
> It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on Mailing
> list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )
>
>> The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and that
>> the community can provide early feedback.
>
> No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from
> users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components
> that might get affected by that feature.

Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
 wrote:

I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it
will be autocategorized by feedback on ML.

It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on Mailing
list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )


The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and that
the community can provide early feedback.

No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from
users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components
that might get affected by that feature.

Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.


Think broader than single announcment to an single mailing list since 
features more often enough touch more then one part of the community...


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:51:43PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> > wrote:
> >>>I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it
> >>>will be autocategorized by feedback on ML.
> >>It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on Mailing
> >>list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )
> >>
> >>>The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and that
> >>>the community can provide early feedback.
> >>No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from
> >>users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components
> >>that might get affected by that feature.
> >Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
> >get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.
> 
> Think broader than single announcment to an single mailing list
> since features more often enough touch more then one part of the
> community...

So your proposition is??

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Miloslav Trmač [07/12/2012 18:07] :
>
> Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
> get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.

IIRC, being subscribed to devel@ is not mandatory.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Emmanuel Seyman  wrote:
> * Miloslav Trmač [07/12/2012 18:07] :
>>
>> Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
>> get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.
>
> IIRC, being subscribed to devel@ is not mandatory.

I was imprecise - the meeting minutes show that the announcement goes
to devel-announce.

(In any case, responding to an e-mail is not mandatory, so... :) )
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:06:24AM -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> Do not call it "Feature Process" but "Planning process" - as it
> fits the decision to create F19 schedule after we know the scope

+1 to that!

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/07/2012 05:22 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:51:43PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
 wrote:

I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when it
will be autocategorized by feedback on ML.

It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on Mailing
list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )


The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and that
the community can provide early feedback.

No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from
users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components
that might get affected by that feature.

Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.

Think broader than single announcment to an single mailing list
since features more often enough touch more then one part of the
community...

So your proposition is??


For example using the official distribution announce mailing list which 
should reach broader audience then just -devel if people are inclined to 
go down this path.


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Michael Scherer
Le vendredi 07 décembre 2012 à 18:22 +0100, Pierre-Yves Chibon a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:51:43PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > On 12/07/2012 04:46 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > >On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:13 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> > > wrote:
> > >>>I am not sure why do you want to categorize it by size and impact, when 
> > >>>it
> > >>>will be autocategorized by feedback on ML.
> > >>It's common knowledge that you cant autocategorized by feedback on Mailing
> > >>list regardless what's it's for. ( For obvious reasons )
> > >>
> > >>>The only think matters is that the Feature is widely advertised and that
> > >>>the community can provide early feedback.
> > >>No that is not enough because in the end you will only get feedback from
> > >>users of those feature not necessary from developers of other components
> > >>that might get affected by that feature.
> > >Advertising the feature on the _devel_ list is intended precisely to
> > >get feedback from developers of other possibly affected components.
> > 
> > Think broader than single announcment to an single mailing list
> > since features more often enough touch more then one part of the
> > community...
> 
> So your proposition is??

While I cannot answer for Jóhann, I think a proposal could be to 
contact for example QA, as some features will have a huge impact for
them. Contact irc support, as they may have some insight on the common
issue reported by people, etc. 

Forcing everybody to be on -devel doesn't scale, that's why there is SIG
and specialized lists. I remember having seen several people being
annoyed of the high volume of list like debian-devel, cooker@mandriva,
and in the end, this didn't helped much the communication.

Christophe Wickert spoke last year about the idea of having a common
gathering ( ie, some kind of inter team council ) for having such
discussion, dubbed the fedora council.
( 
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-townhall/2011-11-17/fedora_townhall.2011-11-17-23.13.log.html
 )

Maybe that could be explored ( ie, that would just be a extension of the
go/no go meeting from a organisational point of view ).

The way this is done for Mageia is to have a weekly irc meeting to talk
about various subjects, but I am not fond of adding more irc meeting.

A "feature" SIG ?
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson

On 12/07/2012 06:37 PM, Michael Scherer wrote:

While I cannot answer for Jóhann, I think a proposal could be to
contact for example QA, as some features will have a huge impact for
them. Contact irc support, as they may have some insight on the common
issue reported by people, etc.


We have a track instance in QA to use for these things no need tie that 
to single individual sitting on some feature council...


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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
>   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)

>   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)

how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
a regression? It is a big disappointment that Fedora is more and more
turning its back on security. If I remember correctly, Fedora was one of
the leading distributions providing and using signed packages. But with
time this is more and more invalidated and people are more and more
expected to install unsigned packages or not to verify them.  At least
back in 2010 malicious mirrors were still acknowledged as a security
risk for Fedora users and signed packages were mentioned as a counter
measure:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirror_manager_security_risks
How come it became less important now? Actually it is even easier to
attack users as more and more mobile devices are used. And what is even
worse, the whole problem of not verifying packages on upgrade or the
upgrade image itself is not even prominently communicated. There is
nothing in the release notes about this:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#idm32350976

I am very disappointed about this and I think this this a bad decission.
:-(

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:11:08PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
> >   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> > not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)
> >   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> > (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)
> how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
> a regression? It is a big disappointment that Fedora is more and more

I assume because Anaconda has never done this. (Our dear old friend bug
#998.)



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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:28:16PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:11:08PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
> > >   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> > > not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)
> > >   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> > > (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)
> > how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
> > a regression? It is a big disappointment that Fedora is more and more
> 
> I assume because Anaconda has never done this. (Our dear old friend bug
> #998.)

Anaconda only needs to do this, if it is used for network installs. But
it was always possible to verify the DVD image and use the verified
packages from there: https://fedoraproject.org/verify

Some people even bothered to change the process from using MD5 or SHA1
to using SHA256 in the past.

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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:36 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 02:28:16PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:11:08PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
> > > >   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> > > > not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)
> > > >   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> > > > (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)
> > > how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
> > > a regression? It is a big disappointment that Fedora is more and more
> > 
> > I assume because Anaconda has never done this. (Our dear old friend bug
> > #998.)
> 
> Anaconda only needs to do this, if it is used for network installs. But
> it was always possible to verify the DVD image and use the verified
> packages from there: https://fedoraproject.org/verify
> 
> Some people even bothered to change the process from using MD5 or SHA1
> to using SHA256 in the past.

fedup is supposed to support using a DVD image as a package source,
though I'm not sure of the current status of that.
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:11 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
> >   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> > not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)
> 
> >   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> > (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)
> 
> how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
> a regression? 

If you read the IRC logs and not just the summary, this was all laid out
there. It is part of the background in the bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877623#c13

> And what is even
> worse, the whole problem of not verifying packages on upgrade or the
> upgrade image itself is not even prominently communicated. There is
> nothing in the release notes about this:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#idm32350976

It would have been premature to put it in the release notes before this
decision was made, obviously. What would've been the point of writing it
into the release notes if FESCo had said 'this has to be fixed before we
release F18'?

You nominated the bug as requiring a release note on 29th November, then
complained that it wasn't in the release notes on 7th December -
basically you gave the docs team about a week of turnaround time, which
isn't a heck of a lot with a release with as many changes as F18.
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Re: Summary/Minutes for Wednesday's FESCo meeting (2012-12-05)

2012-12-08 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 12:10:36AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 20:11 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > > * 960 - F18 schedule + the holidays  (notting, 18:50:29)
> > >   * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JaroslavReznik/FedupF18Final -
> > > not updated yet  (jreznik, 18:58:15)
> > 
> > >   * AGREED: Do not block on fedup signature checking (not a regression)
> > > (+:7, -:0, 0:0)  (notting, 19:08:47)
> > 
> > how is not providing a supported way to do secure upgrade of Fedora not
> > a regression? 
> 
> If you read the IRC logs and not just the summary, this was all laid out
> there. It is part of the background in the bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877623#c13

There it is only mentioned, that there were possibilities to do insecure
updates. The big change is, that now only insecure updates are possible.

> > And what is even
> > worse, the whole problem of not verifying packages on upgrade or the
> > upgrade image itself is not even prominently communicated. There is
> > nothing in the release notes about this:
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#idm32350976
> 
> It would have been premature to put it in the release notes before this
> decision was made, obviously. What would've been the point of writing it
> into the release notes if FESCo had said 'this has to be fixed before we
> release F18'?

Since the release notes for the Beta release point to the final release
notes (as of yesterday they did actually point to the release notes for
Fedora 13 in the wiki), it should be mentioned there already. It can
still be removed if it is to be fixed.

> You nominated the bug as requiring a release note on 29th November, then
> complained that it wasn't in the release notes on 7th December -
> basically you gave the docs team about a week of turnaround time, which
> isn't a heck of a lot with a release with as many changes as F18.

The whole update process and procedure using fedup is afaik not even
properly designed or communicated. If I remember correctly for a long
time only vague information about a new update tool to be written were
posted to the devel list. And even now it is totally unclear how it will
work. On the other hand the Beta should be used for upgrade testing.
Publishing it before it is ready and all information is available is the
problem. If more time is needed to properly document it, then the time
should be taken instead of releasing the Beta without proper
documentation.

Regards
Till
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