This should hit Planet Sugar Labs shortly, but there's a more readable summary of the behind-the-scenes of the Mirabelle release up at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle#Release_history.
A broader explanation is at http://blog.melchua.com/2010/06/04/the-history-of-the-soas-mirabelle-release-learning-from-the-past/ - I'm trying to get some non-SL (mostly Fedora) folks to look at this as well, since we could benefit from more open communication with our upstreams. --Mel PS: Major accomplishments this release cycle... * We have a team! * We have a release schedule! * We started using the Fedora Spins process and engineering resources, which made release engineering much smoother. * We started driving communications to public channels – notably the SoaS mailing list – so things are more transparent. * Multiple people have commit access to each repository that needs to be handled, so there are no single-person bottlenecks remaining. * We shifted to a time-based release cycle, meaning we had a target release date set early in the process rather than our prior “it seems ready… now-ish?” method. _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas