F9 Feature Process

[John Poelstra]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Out of interest, I didn't see any information about how we did in terms of features that made it in vs features 
> that were dropped or deferred in your F8 recap. Did we drop anything, and if so, have you looked at why ?
> 

Thanks for all of your feedback.  I will make sure FESCo considers it 
when they discuss changes to the policy.

In terms of stats on features that were dropped or deferred--I did not 
actively track them, but that is in interesting question.  Would there 
be value in doing that or is anecdotal evidence enough?  I ask because 
tracking it is all manual :)

In almost all of the cases, FESCo and the feature owner(s) agreed that a 
particular feature wasn't ready enough and should be deferred a the time 
approval was being voted on OR features with stale statuses that I 
raised at FESCo after not hearing back from the feature owner when it 
was pretty much known that that particular feature was not going to be 
completed.

Then there were a couple of features where the feature was approved, 
nothing happened with it and then it was dropped because the owner said 
it wasn't really considered a feature... 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Bookmarks

John