Re: About the role of the Release (again)

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

Hello everybody,  I know that this is an old thread, but unfortunately, 
it doesn't have a proper answer, and people still ping me about it now 
and then. Probably everybody is being pinged. Now that 3.10 is out the 
door, perhaps it's a good time to revisit it.

On 08/06/2013 02:22 PM, Piñeiro wrote:
> On 08/05/2013 11:27 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
> > We have been quite a  bit more active in setting direction, in the
> > past year. Big decisions:
> >
> > - replacing fallback mode by classic mode
> > - wayland
>
> I didn't mention those specifically, but I mentioned that we were
> already proactively involved on discussions

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> > I have personally be involved in turning both of these from 
> > decisions
> > into reality, by publicising the decisions, providing resources,
> > organizing meetings, etc.  So, I think we've followed the mandate 
> > from
> > last years AGM pretty well.
> Yes. In the end probably all this is about personal impressions. 
> People
> complaining are usually somewhat more noisy, and people don't realize
> the other stuff we are doing. And as you say, you were publicly 
> pushing
> for that, so I can't say that is a marketing problem that we need to 
> solve.

As we were saying some months ago, after AGM 2012 we have been more 
active on moving forward and having discussions about decisions on the 
platform. But some people still think that we are not doing that. So, 
imho, probably we would need to do something to get more visibility on 
that work.

After all these months, and having read over the previous discussion 
and concerns, I personally concluded that one of the issues is not 
getting any warning on changes on features until they are finally 
implemented. If the work is done, is harder to say to the developer: 
"you need to revert that change". So one idea would be expand the 
feature proposal, in order to not only include new feautures proposal, 
but also significant changes/drops on already existing features. After 
all, we're already overseeing this process. We would be just expanding a 
little the feature proposal process so that there are not any surprises 
at release time.

Having said so. Thoughts, doubts?


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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (apinheiro igalia com)