Re: Meeting minutes for 2007/Aug/03 meeting

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

At least last time we discussed this, r-t list was open to anyone to
subscribe, I believe. And to be completely technically accurate, it
isn't that I came back, it is that I never left ;)

Luis

On 8/3/07, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> Minutes of the Release-Team meeting, 2007/Aug/3
>
> =============
> 0) Attendance
> =============
>
> (10-20 minutes late)
> Andre Klapper
> Elijah Newren
> Frederic Crozat
> John Palmieri
> Vincent Untz
>
> (later than that)
> Kjartan Maraas
>
> No attendance:
> Jeff Waugh
>
>
> ===================
> 1) Assignments
> ===================
>
> Elijah
>   - Send meeting minutes to the list (DONE!)
>   - Find a backup for J5 on the 2.20.1 release 2.20.1 if OLPC schedule
>     precludes J5 from handling it
>   - serve as backup for 2.19.9x if needed
> Vincent
>   - email the module decisions announcements to devel-announce-list
>   - update the module lists in the wiki
>   - start the wiki list of emeritus r-t members (DONE!)
> Frederic
>   - mail emeritus r-t members to announce they can be on r-t list
>     if they want
>   - Handle the 2.19.92 release
>   - Handle the 2.20.0 release
> Andre
>   - contact people from an agreed queue to fill r-t vacancies
>   - have these people read and critique
>     http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/NewReleaseTeamMembers as
>     their first task.
> Kjartan
>   - Handle the 2.19.90 release
>   - Handle the 2.19.92 release
> John
>   - Handle the 2.20.1 release (tentative, only if OLPC is released
>     before)
>
>
> ===================
> 2) Proposed Modules
> ===================
>
> accerciser: IN
>   unanimous approval
>   vuntz loves Willie
>
> gnome-devel-docs: IN
>   unanimous approval
>   we should push for more people to get involved by advertising it more
>   vuntz loves Shaun
>
> rarian as external dep, scrollkeeper removed from desktop suite: APPROVED
>   DonS really needs to keep svn up to date with releases
>   vuntz loves DonS
>
> libnotify as an external (desktop) dependency: REJECTED
>   we need to distinguish between approved deps for desktop and platform
>   We should start blessing D-Bus interfaces, via fd.o
>   started out 3 vs. 2 in favor, ended up as 4 vs. 1 against
>   vuntz will explain why (libegg, libsexy, needs to be in gtk) in announcement
>
>
> ===================
> 3) Membership
> ===================
>
> As approved unanimously, a new rule in 2 parts:
>   We have an emeritus section of the release-team membership page.
>   Past release-team members are welcome to be subscribed to
>   release-team and provide helpful advice.  Luis has done this, and
>   has been of great help.
>
>   Someone can move from current member of the release team to the
>   emeritus list by either of two methods:
>     1) self-choice
>     2) they don't show up to any meetings for two cycles and the
>        remainder of the team agrees at a meeting that the individual
>        has moved to emeritus status
>
> Changes in the team:
>   New emeritus status
>     - We agreed to move Jeff to emeritus status, and hopes he remains
>       on the list to provide advice.  He has a lot of useful
>       experience.
>     - [Andre was going to ask someone else about their status in the
>        team, but they showed up later.]
>   Replacement team members
>     We have two vacancies.  We agreed on the following queue of people:
>       - olav, guenther, halfline, fpeters
>     Andre to contact them, in that order, until we find two suckers^Wvolunteers
>
>
> ===================
> 4) Releases
> ===================
>
> 2.19.90 kmaraas
> 2.19.91 fcrozat
> 2.19.92 kmaraas
> 2.20.0  fcrozat
> 2.20.1  J5 (tentatively), elijah as backup
>
> Anyone who can possibly serve as a backup for 2.20.0 would be
> appreciated.  We had four "I probably can't make it"'s at the meeting.
>
>
> ===================
> 5) Other items
> ===================
>
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleaseSets and related/competing ideas need a
> lot of discussion
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