{"id":1796,"date":"2012-08-09T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:45:43","slug":"mageia-features-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/08\/09\/mageia-features-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia 3 features: process and choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/08\/09\/mageia-features-process\/basket\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1798\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/08\/09\/mageia-features-process\/basket\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/basket.png\" data-orig-size=\"128,128\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"basket\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/basket.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/basket.png\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1798\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Specify\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/basket.png\" alt=\"Oxygen icon\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As said in a<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2012\/06\/11\/cauldron-is-boiling-again-never-2-without-3\/\"> previous post<\/a>, people are now back to work, focused on Mageia 3 release. So it was time again to define the specifications for the coming release. We then thought it was time to improve the process used for Mageia 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the list of submitted specifications was very long and we only implemented a few of them,<\/li>\n<li>lots of submitted ideas were just undefined or were missing a lot of information,<\/li>\n<li>some submitted specifications were not really specifications like &#8220;update to xxx version&#8221; for minor packages,<\/li>\n<li>we got\u00a0some kind of catalog of items without logic,<\/li>\n<li>and many of them were proposed without any resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">So we decided to setup a different process and improve things. We first had a look on the other distributions to see how it was handled. We were finally inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Features\/Policy\">Fedora<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mageia has now its own <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Features_policy\">Features policy<\/a>. It defines what is a feature, how it can be proposed, and what criteria are used to choose the official one for coming releases.<\/p>\n<p>The process is the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make proposals for Mageia 3 after reading the policy. People had to use a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Feature_Template\">template<\/a> to formalize it,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Category:ProposedFeatureMageia3\">all the proposals<\/a> were then read and sorted. All the contributers were asked to complete it if necessary or discuss it on mageia-dev mailing-list,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/FeatureMageia3_Review\">final choice<\/a> was made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>We finally proposed a list divided into 4 kinds of features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accepted features:\u00a0now fully described and will be followed in teams meeting,<\/li>\n<li>Pending features: may be implemented but for now we miss resources information,<\/li>\n<li>Features to be detailed:\u00a0need to be completed,<\/li>\n<li>Refused features:\u00a0refused for various reasons: discussions already in progress, duplicated features, &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let see now first results of the implementation of these features in first alpha release <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mageia.org\/en\/Mageia_3_development#Development_Planning\">planned<\/a> for 4th of september!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As said in a previous post, people are now back to work, focused on Mageia 3 release. So it was time again to define the specifications for the coming release. 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