Re: [sugar] Release Cycle - Responsibilities

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 01:46 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:47 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5. Separate OLPC deployment support developers from the Sugar Labs > > development develops. In the last cycle it appeared that developers and > > manage

Re: [sugar] Release cycle - Goals

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proposal: > > 1. Continue the discussion that Marco started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > 2. Submit suggestions for future development via > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap/0.84 . > 3. Appoint Marco and Greg Smith to

Re: [sugar] Release Cycle - Responsibilities

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:47 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 5. Separate OLPC deployment support developers from the Sugar Labs > development develops. In the last cycle it appeared that developers and > managers split their time between support and developments. As a > result, n

Re: [sugar] Release Cycle - Period

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:44 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first step in establishing a release cycle will be setting the > period. > > Here again, I think that we all agree in principle on a sixth month > cycle. Yeah we discussed it in the Sugar meeting a couple of weeks ago

Re: [sugar] Release cycle - Goals

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:42 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Proposal: > > 1. Continue the discussion that Marco started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > 2. Submit suggestions for future development via > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap/0.84 . Agreed, I want to start contribut

[sugar] Release cycle - Goals

Over the last weeks I have been looking at how we can improve our release cycle. Today will be about defining and implementing goals. Setting goals for any software project is hard, much less an open source project. Marco started the discussion last week at http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar

[sugar] Release Cycle - Responsibilities

The third step in establishing a release cycle will be determining responsibilities. This will be the biggest challenge. Assessment of areas to improve. This is not meant as a slight on the hard work any individuals at OLPC have done on Sugar. I am amazed at the overall progress you have made i

Re: [sugar] Release Cycle (David Farning)

Hi David, Very constructive and encouraging e-mail! The PDF looks interesting too. Thanks, Greg S *** Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:34:44 -0500 From: David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [sugar] Release Cycle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[sugar] Release Cycle - Period

The first step in establishing a release cycle will be setting the period. Here again, I think that we all agree in principle on a sixth month cycle. >From Sugar Labs perspective the actual time period is quite arbitrary. The lower bound is how quickly we can effectively iterate through the innov

Re: [sugar] Release Cycle

David Farning wrote: > Now, it is time for our stakeholder representative to sit down and hash > out a plan for the up coming release cycle. I am not naive enough to > think that we can immediately forget our past grudges or politics. But, > I am optimistic enough to think that we can agree enoug

[sugar] Release Cycle

Now that Sugar Labs has released .8.2 to OLPC it is time to revisit the release cycle issue. I have the feeling that most of us agree _in_principle_ to the idea that an established release cycle is important. As part of his Ph.D. Martin Michlmayr has done some interesting research on the topic.