On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:32, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for > 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I > decided that it will be best to keep this role for some more time. I > think it will be important for Sugar that we keep some continuation of > the processes that we have been setting up during the last years. It > would also be very good if someone would like to lend a hand with this > or shadow me for future tasks so more people in Sugar Labs have direct > hands-on knowledge. > > We defined the role of the release manager in the past 3 releases like > the following: > > * setting the schedule > * make sure that the Feature process is followed by the submitters [2] > * keeping the wiki updated about the released modules and making sure to > have final release notes available > * sending email reminders about approaching Freezes, tarball due dates etc > > The schedule would be based on the GNOME releases, a 6 month release > cycle. As there is not much time left for 0.90 [3] I think we should > mainly focus on stabilizing and landing the features that were left over > from the last release. I would start to announce a time frame for future > releases so that future development can go on. New Features would be > handled by the Feature process, as it has been the case in the past. > > What do others think about this?
A big +1 from me, thanks a lot for taking this task once more, it is really important for Sugar. Regards, Tomeu > Regards, > Simon > > [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-May/023710.html > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy > [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
