El vie, 21-04-2006 a las 18:12 +1000, David Crossley escribió: > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > Hi all, > Thanks for trying to help in this area. This is > related to something that i have been concerned about. > I have been the RM for the recent releases. We need other > people to also understand and be able to do the process. > It was fanstastic that Ferdinand assisted last time. > > I wonder whether we can establish a regular scheduled release with the > > help of an official release manager. > > I don't see how that will help. The release manager > starts when the project is almost ready to do a release, > but it is not their job to fix the major issues that > are hindering our release.
> You mention "scheduled releases". I recall that we > had a big discussion about that topic and whether > it was a good approach. Would someone please refer > to that thread. I cannot remember this discussion. Can it be that was on cocoon and not here? > > Ideal it would be not one single person but a group of people that take > > turns to do a release. That said if you are interested in helping doing > > a release as RM, please beware that other trust you to really do it. > > > > Why having a RM? One thing that I learned over the years in os > > development is that people feel more responsible for doing a job when > > their have officially the function or feel personal responsible for the > > project. > > Well i felt responsible, but it didn't help > our releases to happen any more quickly. What is the root cause that our releases do not happen as quick as we wish? > > Seeing our release rate we need to build a habit of releasing on a > > regular basis. > > > > Who will volunteer for the group of RM? > > I will. Like last time, i am very pleased if other > people either help, or actually do it and i will do > the helping role. I will as well. > > I will enhance etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt so that people > know what they are in for. Is there a special reason why this is a txt file? Can I create a xdocs from it and add it to the docu? salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
