+1 Excellent summary!
EdB On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 11/3/14, 3:30 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I asked for feedback over a period of a week and only feedback was to > >change a title. Without a release candidate is seens to me that people are > >unwilling to check things. > > Right, I understood the prior thread to be a “last call for new features”. > Maybe in the future it should be tagged [LAST CALL]. During that phase, > we tweaked a few things like the disclaimer. > > I expected the next step is that you put up a release candidate and open a > [DISCUSS] thread, but not a [VOTE] thread. We still have it iron out the > wrinkles, but I expected that there wouldn’t be a numbering of the > candidates, just a “I have put a package on dist/dev. What do folks think > of it?” > > Then we’d ask folks to try it out and after it appears that enough folks > have tried it (and yes, pleading and begging might be involved), then a > formal vote would be started. If issues are found during the discussion > phase, you can just drop a new package over the old package. No need to > cancel vote threads and start new ones. If you do replace the package, > note that in the discuss thread with what changed. Folks who’ve already > looked at the older package can then decide whether they need to look at > the new one. Hopefully they follow commits@ more closely during the > discuss phase as well. > > For TDF, because it is an “app”, if you want more feedback, it might be > reasonable to post a deployed version of TDF somewhere like your personal > folder so folks who aren’t on the PMC can more easily poke at it. The PMC > folks have to vote on the source package, but others should be able to try > the binaries without having to download and expand the binary package. > > -Alex > > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
