Re: Fedora 12 Features Proposed for Removal

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:15 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> > Hi FESCo,
> > 
> > After requesting status updates, including direct email to the feature 
> > owners, the following feature pages do not have a current status or 
> > their ability to tested during the Alpha is unclear based on the lack of 
> > information provided or percentage of completion.
> <snip>
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome2.28
> <snip>
> 
> Feature will obviously be done on time. The feature process doesn't seem
> so forgiving about things happening upstream rather than downstream...
> 
> > In accordance with our recorded process about providing status, I am 
> > proposing that they reviewed and dropped from the Fedora 12 feature list 
> > at Friday's FESCo meeting. 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy/Dropping
> 
> I'll make sure one of the Desktop-y guys updates this (presumably
> Matthias).

I actually looked at this, and the feature process just isn't good
enough for this. We can't really say we're at 100% for GNOME 2.28 when
it hasn't been released, now can we?

So what's expected of such features when the feature process seems
inappropriate?

Cheers