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Old 10-09-2008, 01:47 AM
Jarod Wilson
 
Default Disappointed: My feature was removed without notifying me

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 17:33:43 Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > * * * * no FeSCo member except from Bill reacted to my previous mails.
> >
> > Sorry.
>
> Kevin, no need for further excuses, it's ok, although I'd really like to
> hear some more statements from people involved in that decision.

As Josh already said, its as simple as the Feature not being testable at
freeze time, due to packages required by the Feature not yet being approved.
In my mind, nothing more, nothing less.

Communication could certainly stand to be improved, which was one of the focal
topics of today's FESCo meeting, but the schedule and feature process pages
have been out there in the wiki for some time, and clearly state that if a
Feature isn't testable at freeze time, it will be dropped. However, its only
"dropped" in that its not a Feature touted for the impending release, no
reason it can't still progress forward and be touted in the next release
(and/or made available in the -updates repo for the release it missed, in the
case of new packages like this).

> Nevertheless we should now focus on getting the packages into the repos
> ASAP.

Agreed. You've got a healthy head start on an F11 Feature here.

(Which I'll gladly try out on my netbook, though I'm actually pretty happy
with the tweaked gnome setup I have on it now...)

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Old 10-09-2008, 09:03 AM
David Woodhouse
 
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On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:56 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:09:12PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >
> > >So the decision was made under the assumption that _none_ of the LXDE
> > >packages has ever passed a review. How can somebody who has read the
> > >feature page claim that? Why did nobody answer him back?
> >
> > The decision was made under the _fact_ that the Feature lacked packages
> > that had not passed review. If they aren't all there, it can't be tested
> > by Beta. It's really that simple.
>
> As I wrote in a previous mail: I don't challenge that, but for me it not
> "really that simple" but "really that disappointing". I've put a lot of
> work into the feature and when I see that people hardly seem to read the
> feature page or don't care about informing the feature owner is just
> disappointing

It is unfortunate that you didn't get informed properly. We'll make an
effort to ensure that kind of thing doesn't happen again. I apologise
for that, and I suspect I speak for the rest of FESCo when I do so.

One thing we can do in future to make that situation better is Cc the
feature owners when the meeting agenda is sent to fedora-devel-list. I
hope we can manage that.

The other thing we should do, of course, is work out _why_ you didn't
get the notification. Do you get _any_ notifications? Was it just this
one which was missing? Is there someone from the infrastructure team who
can look into that? ISTR you said that you were the last person to edit
the page before the missing notification -- so it wasn't _expected_ that
you didn't get notified?


We appreciate the work you've put into packaging LXDE. We certainly
don't mean to suggest otherwise, and we are pleased to see the packages
in Fedora 10. (Well, I {do,don't,am}, and again I'm being presumptuous).

Let's get the final two packages reviewed -- and that's another area
where we could do with some improvement, because failing to approve
packages really _is_ verging on the 'deletionism' you spoke of. But
that's a separate discussion.

And then if everything's working and the only thing that's missing is an
entry in comps which lets you choose it in the installer, I think
there's a fairly strong case for having an exception to the string
freeze -- especially since the translation of 'LXDE' is going to be
'LDXE' in most cases We'll see...

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Old 10-10-2008, 12:41 AM
Christoph Wickert
 
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Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2008, 09:03 +0100 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:56 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 16:47 -0400 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:09:12PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > >
> > > >So the decision was made under the assumption that _none_ of the LXDE
> > > >packages has ever passed a review. How can somebody who has read the
> > > >feature page claim that? Why did nobody answer him back?
> > >
> > > The decision was made under the _fact_ that the Feature lacked packages
> > > that had not passed review. If they aren't all there, it can't be tested
> > > by Beta. It's really that simple.
> >
> > As I wrote in a previous mail: I don't challenge that, but for me it not
> > "really that simple" but "really that disappointing". I've put a lot of
> > work into the feature and when I see that people hardly seem to read the
> > feature page or don't care about informing the feature owner is just
> > disappointing
>
> It is unfortunate that you didn't get informed properly. We'll make an
> effort to ensure that kind of thing doesn't happen again. I apologise
> for that, and I suspect I speak for the rest of FESCo when I do so.
>
> One thing we can do in future to make that situation better is Cc the
> feature owners when the meeting agenda is sent to fedora-devel-list. I
> hope we can manage that.

Should not be that hard, there are not so many features/feature
owners.

> The other thing we should do, of course, is work out _why_ you didn't
> get the notification. Do you get _any_ notifications? Was it just this
> one which was missing? Is there someone from the infrastructure team who
> can look into that? ISTR you said that you were the last person to edit
> the page before the missing notification -- so it wasn't _expected_ that
> you didn't get notified?

Nope. You get a notification for the first change, and John was the
first to edit the page after me. So I should have gotten a notice as I
got before on the other changes.
I'm using Gmail now and it's nearly impossible to delete a mail there
(it's even nearly impossible to delete it on purpose), because every
mail is also stored in the "All Messages"-folder. I have searched my
whole mailbox and I did not find anything.

>
> We appreciate the work you've put into packaging LXDE. We certainly
> don't mean to suggest otherwise, and we are pleased to see the packages
> in Fedora 10. (Well, I {do,don't,am}, and again I'm being presumptuous).
>
> Let's get the final two packages reviewed -- and that's another area
> where we could do with some improvement, because failing to approve
> packages really _is_ verging on the 'deletionism' you spoke of. But
> that's a separate discussion.

Agreed, we can discuss this later. BTW: The word "deletionsm" did not
come from me, it was Josh who said that, but of course I agree with him.
>
> And then if everything's working and the only thing that's missing is an
> entry in comps which lets you choose it in the installer, I think
> there's a fairly strong case for having an exception to the string
> freeze -- especially since the translation of 'LXDE' is going to be
> 'LDXE' in most cases We'll see...

Ok, since there is good progress in the reviews now I'm going to ask the
localization team for a string freeze break.

Thanks for your support David, and of course everybody else, who
supports me the LXDE feature.

Regards,
Christoph

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Old 10-10-2008, 12:44 AM
Christoph Wickert
 
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Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2008, 18:41 -0400 schrieb Brian Pepple:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 22:49 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >
> > Agreed, but my point is: They don't need to know all details, but they
> > need to read the feature page. And if the page says that 9 out of 11
> > packages are done I expect FeSCo members to know that, not more, not
> > less, but I expect somebody to not incorrectly state that none of the
> > packages is available.
>
> Umm, no FESCo member did state that. A member of the QA did, and a
> FESCo member (nirik) corrected him.

But niriks statement was incorrect too, as I already pointed out.
Anyway, I'm tired of this discussion now.

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Old 10-10-2008, 01:01 AM
Josh Boyer
 
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:41:32AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>> Let's get the final two packages reviewed -- and that's another area
>> where we could do with some improvement, because failing to approve
>> packages really _is_ verging on the 'deletionism' you spoke of. But
>> that's a separate discussion.
>
>Agreed, we can discuss this later. BTW: The word "deletionsm" did not
>come from me, it was Josh who said that, but of course I agree with him.

I didn't say that. Though I agree we need to be getting more packages
approved.

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Old 10-10-2008, 01:12 AM
Christoph Wickert
 
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Am Donnerstag, den 09.10.2008, 20:01 -0400 schrieb Josh Boyer:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:41:32AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >> Let's get the final two packages reviewed -- and that's another area
> >> where we could do with some improvement, because failing to approve
> >> packages really _is_ verging on the 'deletionism' you spoke of. But
> >> that's a separate discussion.
> >
> >Agreed, we can discuss this later. BTW: The word "deletionsm" did not
> >come from me, it was Josh who said that, but of course I agree with him.
>
> I didn't say that. Though I agree we need to be getting more packages
> approved.

I think this is something we all agree on.

> josh
>

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Old 10-10-2008, 01:28 PM
David Woodhouse
 
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On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:01 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:41:32AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> >> Let's get the final two packages reviewed -- and that's another area
> >> where we could do with some improvement, because failing to approve
> >> packages really _is_ verging on the 'deletionism' you spoke of. But
> >> that's a separate discussion.
> >
> >Agreed, we can discuss this later. BTW: The word "deletionsm" did not
> >come from me, it was Josh who said that, but of course I agree with him.
>
> I didn't say that. Though I agree we need to be getting more packages
> approved.

T'was Richard¹. Sorry for the incorrect attribution.

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