Re: Feedback on 'Opportunity for participation in Gnome releases'

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

Sounds very sensible.

This would also be a good way to get new release-team members. If a good
candidate pops up, I'd like to be replaced sometime. I'm trying to give up
responsibilities and, with Elijah running things so wonderfully smoothly,
it seems like something that doesn't need me any more.

> Hi guys,
>
> So as one of the follow-ups to my earlier email about getting more
> community participation, I was considering sending out the following
> email (though I'm not sure where to--d-d-l and gnome-love?).  Just
> thought I'd ask for suggestions on other ideas or improving the
> wording or whatever...
>
> --- 'Opportunity for participation in Gnome releases' email ---
>
> Gnome releases have always been a community process, but the release
> team is trying to find ways to also broaden the involvement for some
> of the handful of tasks traditionally handled by release team members
> (this is somewhat of a continuing process; we've been doing this
> before and this effort is, in some sense, just another push in that
> direction).  If you browse on over to
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks you'll see the main tasks
> that the release team needs to ensure are take care of.  We don't know
> how to broaden the involvement for all the tasks, but there are some
> obvious candidates:
>
>   - Writing release notes; in particular Murray has signalled in his
>     blog that he would like others in the community to take charge of
>     this.
>   - Various bug/patch nagging; this mainly means showstopper bugs, but
>     possibly also nagging about i18n bugs before string freeze, about
>     accepted-commit_after_freeze bugs before freezes start again and
>     other such things.
>   - Smoketesting release sets; In particular, we'd like to make the
>     jhbuild modulesets we generate available soon after tarballs are
>     in and let others also build and test with them before the
>     release.
>
> If you'd like to get involved with any of these, please contact the
> release-team and/or the individual whose name appears next to the task
> on the http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks wiki page.
>
> Thanks,
> The Release Team
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