My guess is that you are talking about XSCE. ;-) On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:08:29PM -0600, David Farning wrote: > As everyone in the project knows, George Hunt has been serving as > release manager for the last 5 releases. He has spent most of the last > year working on the some time boring foundation tasks rather than > scratching his own personal itches of low power hardware. As such, I > would like to suggest that we give George a break and ask Tim to step > in as Release manager. > > 1. George has been spending a lot of time and effort on sometimes > boring foundatiol aspects of the projects. He is due for a reprieve > to scratch his own itches. > > 2. Last January when we met, I was impressed by George's ability to > say, "Slow down, I don't get it" rather than let someone push a > half-baked idea past him. This is surprising rare in open source. Now, > much of that vetting of ideas happens in the code reviews before > merging. There is less need for the release manager to hold the role > of bad cop. > > 3. Tim brings a lifetime of experience to the project which he can > effectively share as release manager. We don't need to reinvent any > wheels, but some process can be tweaked. > > 4. Term limits on releases managers is a good way of avoiding > territorial disputes within the project. > > 5. Finally, I would like to be confident that the release manager is > not employed by Activity Central. We need to prove that AC > supports the project but does not control it. > > I apologize for violating my own rule about avoiding private > communications :( I pinged both George and Tim off list to verify they > were happy with the idea before suggesting it in public. > > -- > David Farning > Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
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