On 07/05/2014 15:01, Charlie Brady wrote:
Sure. I think the thinking needs to be focussed on getting more
development veolcity over the longer term, rather than on getting SME9
out more quickly by adding developers. I think it would be wise to get
SME9 out as soon as possible, so the concentration should continue to
be on verification, rather than new development. After SME9 is done
the existing developers will have more time to help with recruitment
and training. If you ask them to do that now, the won't be doing SME9
development.
I agree with Charlie's wisdom.
What RC1 needs at the moment is more error reports, such as the one this
week about crontab/anacron. The development for SME Server 9.0 is
complete, but I'm not yet certain that the maturity is there yet.
To implement the post 9.0 roadmap it would be good to have more people
on board.
There are tasks that could be done easily such as
* Roll a new smeserver-locale package on a monthly basis, or whenever
there is a sufficiently large translation patch.
* Develop more automated test cases to reduce the chance of releasing a
bad update.
* Write a developer introduction. We have a *lot* of wiki pages on
development but overlapping and not all up-to-date
* Monitor Bugzilla. Triage incoming bugs, remind about reviews needed etc.
* Grow the number of people that can fix the small bugs - such as the
crontab issue mentioned. The solution was to just delete one file.
Stephane did the basic research (google/bing) and implemented the
solution. That was hugely useful, we just need a pool of people able to
do that.
There are the not so easy tasks such as
* Develop a favourite area, eg LDAP or Samba4, or Mojlicious
* Work on el7
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