Hi Release Team, The board is hoping to vote on this at its meeting later today. I don't think that the vote will have a huge impact on the Release Team, but if anyone has any reservations please let us know ASAP.
Thanks! Allan On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 11:05, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > ... > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:00 pm, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > 2. We need to bring the definition of that software within the > > > umbrella of the Foundation > > > > > > The basic idea we discussed was to have the Release Team act as a > > > committee of the board, and maintain some simple documentation about > > > what GNOME's official software is. At the time it seemed that you were > > > OK with that, and Matthias added a stub to one of your wiki pages [1]. > > > > Another option would be to have release team report to a Foundation > > staff member. This way we'd achieve the goal of bringing release team > > under Foundation control, but without the overhead and formalism of > > having to be a committee of the Board. > > The key thing is that the power to decide official GNOME software > resides with the Foundation. So in the arrangement you describe, the > release team would need to get authorisation from a staff member > whenever they want to add or remove a module from the official > modulesets (core-developer-tools, core-os-services, core-shell, > core-utilities). > > I can understand the concern about the bureaucratic overhead with > being a committee, but I honestly don't think that it's going to be a > big deal... > > Allan >
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