Re: How can we improve the Changes Process?

Pierre-Yves Chibon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 10:51:26AM -0500, Maxwell G wrote:
> As someone who has proposed Changes, I find dealing with the wiki to be
> really cumbersome. I'm used to editing technical documentation stored in git
> in markdown in my preferred text editor or using a standard word processor
> for other types of writing. The Wiki brings another syntax and another
> interface that I have to deal with.
> 
> I am also under the impressions that it's difficult to properly process
> Changes from the wiki without a lot of error-prone, manual steps. I have
> seen various issues with the current process where formatting of Discourse
> posts and FESCo tickets is messed up, Change owners aren't CCed on FESCo
> tickets and Bugzilla trackers (which caused process delays), Changes get
> stuck in one of the steps of the process, etc. I know there were some new
> AI-assisted tooling introduced recently, but that only seemed to make
> problems worse.

Do you have any specifics on how the tooling changes made things worse?
I think this would be useful feedback for both the people who worked on them as
well as the people who are using them.


Pierre
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