[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 feature proposals review

Wed Jul 4 18:33:32 CEST 2012

On Wed, 04 Jul 2012, David Walser wrote:
+
+> nicolas vigier wrote:
+> >> For mine, it was obvious without explicitly listing it, and the comment here:
+> >> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/FeatureMageia3_Review
+> >> 
+> >> makes it pretty clear it was obvious.  Regardless, I have added it now:
+> >> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:ChronyDefaultNTP
+> > 
+> > So what is still missing is someone to implement the drakx changes ? Or
+> > you think you can do that part too ?
+> 
+> Whoa, this is crazy.  You expect that to be fully filled out in the first pass of proposals?  That 
+> doesn't make any sense.
+
+No, that's why there is a second pass.
+
+> 
+> Let's just say for example, there's a developer who would be implicated in 25 proposals that are 
+> submitted.  25 is too many for them to commit to implementing, though they would be interested in 
+> helping with which ever ones are accepted.  So they either have to 1) not sign up for any of them 
+> because there's too many or 2) sign up for all of them, expecting only 10 or so will be accepted, 
+> which would be manageable for them, but if more are accepted, then what?
+> 
+> This should be a two pass process.  First proposals are submitted, then once you make the 
+> determination of which ones look good enough to be conditionally accepted, then people can sign up 
+> as "resources" to commit to helping implement ones from that smaller set.  I had also assumed this 
+> is how it would work (it's really the only reasonable way).
+
+This is already how it works, if you read features policy page :
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Features_policy#Features_acceptance
+
+Features which have been listed in status "Resource needed" need to have
+people sign up as resources.
+
+> For the record, I may be able to do the DrakX code changes if I know which part of the code to look 
+> at.  It's possible someone else may be interested in helping too, but I wouldn't expect anyone else 
+> to commit to that just yet.
+
+Then you should list yourself as doing the DrakX code changes.
+
+