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

[Simon Schampijer]

On 08/23/2010 01:51 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>> 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]).
>
> I guess I am still a bit confused by the process. I assumed that the
> act of creating a feature page was essentially the act of proposing a
> feature. As to when to propose it for acceptance, it would be after
> the initial review iterations with the design team and development
> team. I'll look more closely at the instructions in the wiki.

Ok, there are two steps:

A: Create the Feature page: You propose it to the community. This can be 
an early draft. Has not to be targeted at a specific release. Can as 
well be done by someone that can not even do the coding task.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Propose_a_feature

B: Once you propose it for a inclusion in a release cycle that is when 
you propose it to the release manager. He does then do the formal check. 
You send an email to the mailing list and change the category.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Propose_a_feature_for_addition_into_the_release_cycle

>> 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]).
>
> Sorry. I missed that detail. Will do.

Great, I hope this helps to make it clearer.

Thanks,
    Simon