FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-07-03
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Jul 7 21:45:18 UTC 2008
Brian Pepple <bpepple <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Better_Test_Plans
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F10PolicyReview#Empty_Feature_Page_Sections
Ugh, developers _already_ struggle with filling in all the sections, which
sometimes simply don't apply to the feature, how is even more bureaucracy going
to help? Let me take a past feature as an example (for lack of ability to
predict the future): try writing a complete detailed test plan for
FeatureKDE4... And no, you don't have 3 years to write it and I don't think the
wiki will scale to megabytes of text in a single feature page. ;-) And in
addition to sections just not relevant to the specific feature, there's also
the issue of developer time being wasted on bureaucracy, time which not all
developers have: the FeatureKDE4 page ended up as complete as it now is because
we spent lots of time on it, some feature pages are in a much worse state, and
I don't think pressure like the above "process improvements" is going to help,
because this isn't laziness, it's genuine lack of time.
Kevin Kofler
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