Re: release coordination

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 29 Apr 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> At the Tuesday board meeting we're going to try to decide on the
> release coordinators for GNOME 2. We have a few candidates so far, but
> I don't want to miss anyone.
> 
> If you are interested in doing the release coordinator job and I don't
> know that, drop me a private mail ASAP.
> 
> It appears that this job involves:
> 
>  - knowing lots of GNOME hackers and projects 
>  - keeping a macro-level list of tasks to be done (port foo to new
>    libs, develop feature XYZ, etc.), who is doing them, knowing 
>    at all times if they are on track, and finding someone 
>    to do anything that's dropping through the cracks
>  - managing a micro-level list of tasks to be done (bugzilla)
>  - planning milestones, freezes, etc.; tracking task status 
>    in bugzilla for those; hassling people to make sure 
>    milestones/freezes happen
>  - coordinating testing, docs, translation, ftp site, PR, etc. 
>    for the GNOME 2 release; making sure this all happens, that
>    the various groups are not screwing each other by breaking 
>    freezes or whatever, that everyone knows what is going on 
>    at all times, etc.

errr... coordinating with the representatives of the various
"supported/reference platforms"? 

>  - keeping things upbeat and moving briskly with status reports and
>    that kind of thing.
> 
> Basically we are talking about project management, but you're managing
> volunteers, so there's the cat herding element in there. It takes a
> special kind of personality to do this. ;-)
> 
> Anyhow, let me know.
> 
> Havoc
> 
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	Sander

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