[Sugar-devel] Feature Freeze exception request: spiral extension to Home View feature

[Simon Schampijer]

On 08/18/2010 03:28 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> I am requesting an exception to Feature Freeze. I just completed what
> I hope to be the final clean up of the spiral extension to the Home
> View.
>
> The ticket is here:
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2143
>
> The patch is here:
> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2143/0001-adding-spiral-extension-to-Ring-View.patch
>
> The feature request is here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Spiral_Home_View
>
> The discussion thread with the design team is here:
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-August/025953.html
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter

Hi Walter,

thanks for working on this great enhancement!

A general comment: I know you have been working on this for a while and 
did several rounds of reviews. It is better to propose the Feature 
itself for the release as early as possible. As the Acceptance of the 
Feature itself has nothing to do with the actual code we can decide 
upfront if the Feature is suitable for the release [1]. (Merging of the 
Feature code is in agreement with the module maintainer following the 
Sugar coding guidelines and the review process [2]).

The Feature does meet all the criteria listed in [1] and the Feature 
page does present the Feature well, too. Please don't forget to change 
the category when you want to propose the Feature for inclusion (Once 
the feature owner believes that the feature is ready for presentation to 
the Release Manager for acceptance move your feature from 
Category:Feature Page Incomplete to Category:Feature Ready for Release 
Manager. The Release Manager will then do the sanity check [3]).

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Acceptance_of_a_feature
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Code_Review
[3] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Propose_a_feature_for_addition_into_the_release_cycle