Fedora Board Recap 2009-10-22 UTC 1600

[John Poelstra]

On 10/29/2009 09:48 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 19:14 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> Does the board have any target milestones from Release Engineering for
>> completion of this proposal?  If not, can we get some?  We've been
>> talking about this proposal in a lot of places, but without a specific
>> time line.
>>
>> As always, my scheduling services (in a non-board member capacity) are
>> available and free of charge :)
>
> The first target was by beta branch of F12.  That's why we rushed the
> FAD.  However we just weren't able to hit that goal, so the new goal is
> by the time we would branch Fedora 13.  I'm hoping to get a good list of
> work needed doing at FUDCon, complete with some dates to go by.
>

I realize we missed our original goal of Fedora 12.  As Fedora 13 is our 
new goal I was suggesting milestones (check in points) to make sure we 
stay on track and finish on time... like we've done with the more 
detailed schedules for each of the Fedora teams.

Why not identify the work that needs to be done *before* FUDCon and then 
use FUDCon to write the code and make it happen?  There are at least 2.5 
weeks between GA and FUDCon.  I'll volunteer to help lead planning the 
meetings.

I'm just wondering if we'd get more "bang for our buck" if we used the 
live event to *do* the actual implementation instead of using it to talk 
about options, brainstorm, etc., a lot of which I thought happened at 
the FAD that created the original proposal.

By planning ahead for the Fedora Talk FAD last week I'd estimate we 
accomplished twice or three times as much as we would have otherwise. 
We made a lot of progress on the implementation because everyone was 
there and could talk about it in real time as they did the work and 
encountered problems. All without the interruptions of every day work/life.

John