Re: Queries about release specifications [Was: who gets in and why]

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Michael Meeks">

> 	Great :-) that's really good news; oh - and embarassingly enough - the
> GEP webpage doesn't update correctly - somehow
> ~gnomeweb/bin/gep-update-whatever is not working correctly; any chance
> you could fix it ?

I'll have a look; fairly busy with release and FTP stuff at the moment
though. (Why does the GEP stuff have a separate update script?)

> > Hopefully that will form the start of some (hopefully fairly casual)
> > policy documents on things like this.
> 
> 	I do tend to agree with Mark though that one of the purposes of the GEP
> thing is to pull away from the release team some of the decisions that
> they have in the past made - so they are done in a more open and
> accountable way, by hackers.

  s/hackers/all contributors/ :-)

Yeah, I think that open planning stuff went by the wayside as we leapt onto
the bucking bronco that was GNOME 2. Not entirely sure whether the full GEP
process is required to bring in more community scrutiny on this stuff, but
it's certainly something that the release team needs to facilitate.

  (As always, everyone's suggestions for these sorts of things are very
  welcome, please mail release-team gnome org and preferably another
  relevant list depending on the suggestion.)

> Also, having a more formal approval process, might be a lever to encourage
> people to sync release schedules with Gnome, and feel more includeded in
> 'the community'.

Yeah, very good call.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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