The community has lost control... (Was: Re: Don't put new packages through updates-testing)

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 3 14:59:29 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 10:41 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sunday 03 June 2007 10:53:39 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > I do not expect anyone to update all niche pages of the wiki, but is it to
> > much to ask to update a very important often consulted page like:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/NewPackageProcess
> >
> > When there are workflow changes? Sure in about a week, when I hopefully
> > truely understand how bodhi works, I could edit it myself. But I would
> > expect the people introducing such changes to atleast show some minimal
> > effort to keep the most important pages of the wiki under the
> > PackageMaintainers/ hierarchy up to date.
> 
> Do be perfectly honest, I didn't know this page really existed.  I lost track 
> of all the wiki places things were documented long ago, and since I knew how 
> to do things I never looked it up.  I hate to say it, but we need another 
> wiki page (:  One that covers the tasks of issuing changes to workflow.  Way 
> back when I was a member of a change control board, and there was 
> Representatives from various parts of the company and they would make sure 
> your change draft covered everything they needed, and that would include 
> changing the proper wiki page in this case.
> 
> Could not FESCO function in this way as well?  Changes require a draft, draft 
> would include things like updating the proper wiki pages when the change goes 
> into effect, and things like a rollback plan.  Can we discuss this at our 
> next FESCO meeting?

Sounds like a good idea.  I'll add it to the schedule.

Later,
/B
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