Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/06/2012 05:35 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: On 2012-11-05 12:22, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 11/05/2012 07:52 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A crit path update that affects, say, two packages and nothing else, could be "approved by default" as well. Many of the crit path features however

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2012-11-05 12:22, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 11/05/2012 07:52 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A crit path update that affects, say, two packages and nothing else, could be "approved by default" as well. Many of the crit path features however affect a large or extremely large package set (e.

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/05/2012 07:52 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: A crit path update that affects, say, two packages and nothing else, could be "approved by default" as well. Many of the crit path features however affect a large or extremely large package set (e.g. the sysv->systemd script migration), in which case

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:55:26PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> > Here, I think you're smooshing together two of the three levels I'd >> > suggested, putting both non-crit-path enhancements and new leaf >> > functionality into one category

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 07:55:26PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > Here, I think you're smooshing together two of the three levels I'd > > suggested, putting both non-crit-path enhancements and new leaf > > functionality into one category. Is that correct? > Yes, the "self-contained" wording cover

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:45:14PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> > I think "Leaf" is better than "Self contained", since it's unlikely for >> > the feature to have zero outside dependencies. I think it'd be fine for >> > such a feature to r

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:45:14PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > I think "Leaf" is better than "Self contained", since it's unlikely for > > the feature to have zero outside dependencies. I think it'd be fine for > > such a feature to rely on small changes to existing packages (version > > updat

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? >> > - Critical Path Feature >> > - Other Enhancement Feature >> > - New Leaf Feature >> We were thinking wit

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-05 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:10 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/01/2012 06:09 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained feature" >> but yeah, there's a lack of real definition. >> >> Other thing is - these "Self contained features" could be a

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:43:00PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I think I once proposed that FESCo should formally have the ability to > declare that a given change ought to be a feature and force it through > the feature process, but that proposal was rejected. I think that requiring the featu

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 21:28 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/01/2012 08:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > The other thing that we mustn't forget are major changes that aren't > > put through the feature process, but slip in "via the back door". > > As far as I know you are not obli

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 08:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: The other thing that we mustn't forget are major changes that aren't put through the feature process, but slip in "via the back door". As far as I know you are not obligated to participate in the feature process and what do you exactly define a

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 08:13:57PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The other thing that we mustn't forget are major changes that aren't > put through the feature process, but slip in "via the back door". That's where the critpath vs. other enhancement distinction comes in -- for critpath we can

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
The other thing that we mustn't forget are major changes that aren't put through the feature process, but slip in "via the back door". Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 19:50 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > - Original Message - > >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller > >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >> >> > That sounds

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:41:21PM +0100, drago01 wrote: > > I think "Leaf" is better than "Self contained", since it's unlikely for the > > feature to have zero outside dependencies. I think it'd be fine for such a > > feature to rely on small changes to existing packages (version updates, > > say

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? >> >> > - Cr

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > - Original Message - >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? >> >> > - Cr

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? > >> > - Critical Path Feature > >> > - Other Enhancement Feature > >> >

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >> > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? >> > - Critical Path Feature >> > - Other Enhancement Feature >> > - New Leaf Feature >> We were thinking wit

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:09:21PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > That sounds good. Maybe recast those ideas as three levels? > > - Critical Path Feature > > - Other Enhancement Feature > > - New Leaf Feature > We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained feature" > but yeah,

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On 11/01/2012 06:09 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained > > feature" > > but yeah, there's a lack of real definition. > > > > Other thing is - these "Self contained features" could be approved > > implicitly once

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2012 06:09 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: We were thinking with a few folks more about "Self contained feature" but yeah, there's a lack of real definition. Other thing is - these "Self contained features" could be approved implicitly once are announced on devel list (in cooperation with Fe

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:08:39AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I was rather thinking we can simply take advantage of the critical > > path > > definition here. After all, when we came up with the critpath, the > > idea > > was it was a general concept which coul

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:08:39AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I was rather thinking we can simply take advantage of the critical path > definition here. After all, when we came up with the critpath, the idea > was it was a general concept which could be useful beyond the idea of a > 'critpath

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 11/01/2012 07:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 09:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:24:52AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: There are features and features... some of them are new versions of leafnode packages or a just bunch of new packages which no

Re: Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 09:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:24:52AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > There are features and features... some of them are new versions of > > leafnode packages or a just bunch of new packages which nothing else > > depends on, and some of th

Feature template update [was Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule...]

2012-11-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 09:24:52AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > There are features and features... some of them are new versions of > leafnode packages or a just bunch of new packages which nothing else > depends on, and some of them affect *everything* in the distro. > Perhaps the invasive chan