This email was sent to all individual feature owners. I'm sending it a few other place to keep everyone in the loop and to route around those that have black-listed the feature wrangler's or are waiting for me to send post cards ;-)

If you are depending on information about the features below you may want to set wiki page watches to track changes and updates

Thanks, John

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Final Freeze coming--feature page updates needed Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:17:34 -0700 From: John Poelstra poelstra@redhat.com

Hello Feature People :)

With final development freeze coming on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 (two days from now in most parts of the world--less in others), sadly this is one of the last times you'll be able to receive nag mail from me for Fedora 9. ;-)

Final Development Freeze, defined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/FinalFreezePolicy means that all features must be at 100% completion by this date.

Yes, we know "this is Fedora" and "stuff is never 100% done" and all the usual arguments about "what does percentage completion really mean, etc., etc.", but for the average user and members of the other Fedora teams it is important and very helpful to make one last update to your feature page... and for those that will still complain, please make some constructive suggestions for improving the process and lobby to change it for Fedora 10 :) These feature pages are pointed to by a lot by the press and used by many other teams to turn Fedora into a polished looking release so your help is greatly needed and appreciated.

You have the distinct privilege of receiving this message because you are listed as the owner for one or more features that are not listed at 100% completion, though many are very close!

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureEncryptedFilesystems http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Firefox3 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/freeIPA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewGdm http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XULRunner http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XserverOnePointFive http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/SecondStageInstallSource http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PartitionResizing http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LivePersistence http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureKDE4 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/K12Linux http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JigdoRelease http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IMDesktopIntegration http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewGdm

I've received several questions in the past about what to do to bring a feature page to 100% or what to do if all the advertised things on the feature page can't be completed in time. Hopefully this helps...

1) If you implemented all of the things described on your feature page and the package is in rawhide, update to 100% 2) If you DID NOT implement all of the things described on your feature page a) change the feature page to reflect all the things you DID complete for Fedora 9 b) make sure the package is in rawhide c) update to 100% d) if you plan to do more unfinished exciting things in F10 move them to a new feature page 3) If your feature page will end up being empty or very brief in order to honestly say it is 100% done it probably should be removed from the Fedora 9 feature list. Simply change the category of your feature page to CategoryProposedFeature (from CategoryAcceptedFedora9) and let me know 4) If this is still confusing, please contact me :)

Thanks for your help, John 'tired feature wrangler and yes this manual process is starting to not scale any more' Poelstra