Re: How can we improve the Changes Process?

On 7/1/26 2:55 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> 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.

Yes, [1,2,3] are the recent FESCo tickets about this.

[1] https://forge.fedoraproject.org/fesco/tickets/issues/3515
[2] https://forge.fedoraproject.org/fesco/tickets/issues/3524
[3] https://forge.fedoraproject.org/fesco/tickets/issues/3592
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