Fedora 15 Retrospective

Introduction

This page is intended to gather feedback from the Fedora community on things that worked well and things that could have been better during the Fedora 15 release cycle, including (shifting the feature freeze until after FUDCon, NetworkManager 0.9, and so on). The feedback will be used as a basis for identifying areas for improvement for Fedora 16. Any thoughts, big or small, are valuable. If someone already provided feedback similar to what you'd like to add, don't worry ... add your thoughts regardless.

The QA team has their own retrospective page. If you have specific feedback related to testing and/or QA, please visit the Fedora 15 QA Retrospective page.

Providing feedback

• Gwjasu - I like ____ about the new ____ process

Adding feedback is fairly straight forward. If you already have a Fedora account ...

1. Login to the wiki
2. Select [Edit] for the appropriate section below.
3. Add your feedback using the format:

   * ~~~ - I like ____ about the new ____ process

4. When done, Submit your changes

Feedback

Things that went well

1. Robyn Bergeron - Example - Examples are a great way of relaying information about what went well!

Could have been better

1. Jared Smith -- NetworkManager bump - The move to NetworkManager 0.9 came after the feature freeze, and the Sugar desktop wasn't accounted for in the scramble to get alternate desktop environments working with it.
2. Jared Smith -- artwork - There seemed to be a lack of consensus from the Design team on whether or not the artwork was considered ready or not
3. Jared Smith -- systemd - The Fedora Packaging Committee had a hard time getting specifics from the systemd developers in a timely manner, which caused difficulties in creating packaging guidelines with respect to systemd
4. Jared Smith -- marketing - The Fedora Project Leader left the Red Hat press release and web copy until the last minute, and it should have been done much earlier.