[meego-packaging] [meego-commits] 11098: New package Trunk:Testing/kernel-adaptation-oaktrail

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 12/21/2010 12:19 AM, Carsten Munk wrote:
> 2010/12/21 Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com 
> <mailto:arjan at linux.intel.com>>
>
>     On 12/20/2010 9:53 PM, Kangkai Yin wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>         Adding new package kernel-adaptation-oaktrail in project
>         Trunk:Testing. Please review and accept ASAP.
>
>         Justification for this new package:
>
>         The kernel for Oaktrail, fix #BMC 11588
>
>
>
>     ok this is getting silly
>
>     opening dummy bugs just to get past the paperwork, just so you can
>     claim you "fixed" a bug...
>
>     our bureaucrazy has gone waaaay too far.
>
>     We're in a development window, not in a "code freeze strict
>     bugfixes only" part of the schedule!
>
> Well, and we're side-stepping program management totally by having 
> those dummy bugs. A new package should be a FEA# and approved by 
> program management as per 
> http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Process#Package_quality_expectations_for_submissions_into_.2A:Testing_projects

ok that's another fun bureaucrazy ....

tracking desired features is very valuable; it helps people focus and it 
helps corporations know where they want to invest their resources; it 
helps then be reassured that the outcome is useful for a wide enough set 
of customers that it's worth investing their resources.

but on the flip side, requiring that every little thing goes through 
such an approval process goes to far if you ask me. The paperwork gets 
way out of proportion with the actual work. In addition, if someone 
implements something cool and contributes it to MeeGo, that's what 
community contribution is about. We should be saying "thank you sir" not 
"please fill out this stack of paperwork in threefold and we may let you 
put it in".


Right now we just get another list of "dummy" FEA requests (which are 
just bugzilla bugs anyway) that serve no other purpose than to get the 
form filled in threefold.... the program or project is not getting value 
out of those that I can see in any way, shape or form.