RE: Personal remarks on Epiphany/Galeon [Was: Release Team's Almo st-Final Modules List]

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:jdub perkypants org] 
> <quote who="Murray Cumming Comneon com">
> 
> > Let's all go home then. But seriously, I'm sure Jeff is 
> writing an email
> > right now telling us once again what a release set is and 
> why it's useful.
> 
> Heh. Bastardo. ;-) I do it because I care. :-)

Oh, OK, then I'll try to say what I thought you were about to say.

Having a release set allows us to have a release process, and for everyone
to concentrate their efforts on those modules. It means that developers,
translators, documentors, bug-hunters, accessibilitizers, etc, know what
they should work on, and how they should work together, thus increasing the
quality and cohesion of those modules. We have a lot of manpower but even we
don't have enough to expect the same level of quality if that manpower is
not focused. And the best thing about a release set is that it gets
released.

But I seem to have missed Iain's point anyway, though I would really like to
know what he's suggesting. I have the same concerns about the Desktop
release getting too big, but nobody has found a way to define it clearly
yet. I do think 5th Toe should be taken more seriously so that we can show
our appreciation of extra modules without putting them in Desktop. I'm not
sure how to do that.

Murray Cumming
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