James A. Treacy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:09:02AM -0800, Darren Benham wrote: > > Will the release manager do it, though? That's the important question. We > > can't dictate to him/them (when the post gets filled, has Richard been > > confirmed in the post?) > > > I agree. Unless we ask these questions, there is no way we will find the > answers.
I intend to keep a list of release goals that are being worked on, which will then serve as the basis of a list of accomplished goals. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for? > This whole issue is release related. As it stands, what goes into > a release is decided rather haphazardly (at least it appears that way). It's mostly determined by what gets uploaded :-) > P.S. Richard, this discussion arose when a link was removed from the main > debian web page pointing to devel/release_info.html. I took a look at it. Where did the information on that page come from? I don't remember anything about ncurses, for example. > This document has a history of not being well maintained - in large > part because it is difficult to get information. A release > manager/group that is doing its job should have an easy time > maintaining this page, in large part because they make the final > decision on what goes into a release. Indeed, but I am not necessarily aware of everything that gets done during the development period. I'm more likely to notice when there are problems with something :) Richard Braakman
