Re: Stepping down; Calvin as replacement

["Luis Villa" <luis tieguy org>]

On 1/28/07, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Federico,
>
> (I removed Calvin from CC)
>
> Le vendredi 26 janvier 2007, à 11:29, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > On IRC I had already mentioned my intentions to step down from the
> > release team, as I haven't done anything for the past year.  I've hung
> > on to my membership, since just mentioning "I'm a member of the GNOME
> > release team" at expensive restaurants is enough to get me a free meal,
> > or at least some dessert.  But anyway.
> >
> > Calvin Gaisford (on the CC line) is one of our iFolder superstars at
> > Novell, and he was recently assimilated by the desktop team.  We're
> > thinking that he would be a good replacement for me on the release team,
> > since he actually has the intention of doing useful work :)
>
> I'm a bit worried that Calvin is nearly unknown within the community.
> It'd make more sense to me to see him more involved before he joins the
> release team.

Historical note:

During the 2.0 cycle, we had a sun dude involved (whose name now
completely escapes me) who was also a virtual community unknown, but
otherwise had a lot of Serious Software Experience. That worked out
well- he gave good advice and was useful to have around.

That said, release team was a more active/involved group at the time;
things may be different now.

I can also vouch for Calvin being Good People(tm); I've never worked
with him directly but he seems like a really nice guy and very sharp.

Federico- what are his expectations- why does he want to be involved?
It seems to me that is a critical question.

Luis