Great stuff Jonathan. I look forward to working with you. Do you think I will still be here when I am 70?
;-) Bob On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Johnathan Corgan <jcor...@gnuradio.org> wrote: > Most of you already know me, as I’ve been in the GNU Radio community for > eleven years in various roles, including release manager, integration > manager, Live SDR developer, infrastructure manager, engineering > consultant, and technical trainer. Today I’m happy to move on to the role > of Chief Architect. > > It is an exciting time of transition for GNU Radio. Recently there has > been large growth in several areas--growth in our user base, our number of > contributors, the types of radio applications and computing environments > that GNU Radio is running in, and hardware vendor support for interfacing > with GNU Radio applications. > > Much of this success comes from the efforts of unpaid volunteer > contributors whose code they have made freely available to others in the > community. This is the nature of open source development, and to a large > extent this has been accomplished without much formal direction from the > project. As the GNU Radio codebase has grown more complex, we’ve seen the > need for more structured guidance and coordination across development > efforts. > > As Ben has outlined, we’re filling out the new organizational roles of > Tech Leads, whom we are looking to champion their respective areas of > development. This includes: > > > - > > Developing a roadmap for feature development and communicating that > roadmap to the user community and code contributors across the project > - > > Identifying and recruiting individual code contributors > - > > Shepherding feature proposals in their area through the process of > getting community feedback and clarification > - > > Coordinating code integration in their area of the code tree prior to > final review and merging > - > > Ensuring support issues and questions in their area of responsibility > are properly resolved > > > In the next few weeks, Ben and I will be sharing more details about how we > will fill out the organization and how we will be operating the project and > the new Foundation. Key among these are: > > > - > > A new process for proposing, getting community feedback on, and > documenting new (significant) feature development, patterned after the > Python Improvement Proposal process many of you are already familiar with > - > > A more structured code review, unit testing, integration, and release > management process > - > > Roadmap-based development tracks that allow better coordination among > different developers, especially for feature sets that cross organizational > lines > - > > Improved communication among our globally distributed community and > developer base > > > As Chief Architect, I’ll be working closely with Ben, our user community, > and each of our Tech Leads to accomplish these goals. > > -Johnathan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > -- Bob McGwier Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc Research Professor Virginia Tech Dir. Research: The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ) Director of AMSAT
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