Features/Problem Reports
Comments and Explanations:
There are comments (in italic) providing guidance to fill out each section, see also Features/Policy. Copy the source to a new page named Features/Your Feature Name before making changes! DO NOT EDIT THIS TEMPLATE.
Summary
A sentence or two summarizing what this feature is and what it will do. This information is used for the overall feature summary page for each release.
Owner
This should link to your home wiki page so we know who you are
- Name: Your Name
Include you email address that you can be reached should people want to contact you about helping with your feature, status is requested, or technical issues need to be resolved
- Email: <your email address so we can contact you, invite you to meetings, etc.>
Current status
- Targeted release: (SUGAR_VERSION)
- Last updated: (DATE)
- Percentage of completion: XX%
Detailed Description
Expand on the summary, if appropriate. A couple sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better.
Benefit to Sugar
What is the benefit to the platform? If this is a major capability update, what has changed? If this is a new feature, what capabilities does it bring? Why will Sugar become a better platform or project because of this feature?
Scope
What work do the developers have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release? Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?
How To Test
- Open the Control panel.
- Click Report a problem.
- Type in a problem description.
- Click the Upload Report button.
- Verify that the upload succeeds.
- Verify that a report email was sent to the reports list.
- Verify that the data in the report email attachment is reasonable.
- Verify that the download link in the report email works.
- If there are exceptions in any log files (it may help to add one manually), they should be noted in the email.
User Experience
If this feature is noticeable by its target audience, how will their experiences change as a result? Describe what they will see or notice.
Dependencies
What other packages (RPMs) depend on this package? Are there changes outside the developers' control on which completion of this feature depends? In other words, completion of another feature owned by someone else and might cause you to not be able to finish on time or that you would need to coordinate? Other upstream projects like python?
Contingency Plan
If you cannot complete your feature by the final development freeze, what is the backup plan? This might be as simple as "None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour." Or it might not. If you feature is not completed in time we want to assure others that other parts of Sugar will not be in jeopardy.
Documentation
Is there upstream documentation on this feature, or notes you have written yourself? Link to that material here so other interested developers can get involved.
Release Notes
The Sugar Release Notes inform end-users about what is new in the release. An Example is 0.84/Notes. The release notes also help users know how to deal with platform changes such as ABIs/APIs, configuration or data file formats, or upgrade concerns. If there are any such changes involved in this feature, indicate them here. You can also link to upstream documentation if it satisfies this need. This information forms the basis of the release notes edited by the release team and shipped with the release.
Comments and Discussion
You can add categories to tie features back to real deployments/schools requesting them, for example [[Category:Features requested by School Xyz]]