Hi everybody,
One of the topics that I've seen coming back a few times in online
comments is that some people in our community feel like the decisions we
take are not always communicated as they should and don't always seem
open to feedback from other teams. Do you have opinions on how we could
improve that?
There are probably different categories there:
- infrastructure components (toolchain, python version, etc): the
choices there are usually openly discussed and I've not seen a lot of
controversies about the process or results
- standalone softwares or components specific to a flavor: the
discussions around those are happen in the team which has interest for
the component and that seems fine
- libraries or components used by different flavors and teams: those are
the one which usually lead to issues and I'm interested to know what we
could do better there.
Typically the desktop team will have a session at UDS where we settle on
what version of GNOME will be used (that's probably be fine for the
desktop team to decide), but also, glib, gtk, the other GNOME libs. We
don't discuss everything there though and often get things "sorted on
the way" during the cycle, like we will update poppler or webkit because
GNOME starts depending on those new version. That "sort of work" and
other teams usually cope up with the side effects and catch up, but I'm
wondering if we couldn't handle that better.
I'm going to send emails to ubuntu-devel about the versions of webkit
and poppler (and maybe some other components as well) the desktop team
plans to use, I'm interested to know if:
- that list is the right place for those informations and to get
feedback on the choices we are taking
- those informations are useful for you (do all the derivatives teams
read the list?)
- we have a standard way to track the choices different teams have taken
about targetted for the versions (with maybe some reasons on the "why")
or if we should try to get one?
- what components should be discussed this way (or another)? I guess
each derivatives has a list of components they depends on and would
welcome to be informed and able to give their feedback on the choices we
are doing.
Thanks for reading,
Sebastien Bacher
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