Re: GMAE release suites

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:23 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 18:09 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 
> 
> >  + someone will need to define the rules for module inclusion in the
> >    Mobile suites. The rules that we have for the various desktop suites
> >    are probably a good basis.
> > 
> >  + I'm not sure that, in the long term, it's a good idea to keep GNOME
> >    Mobile and GNOME Desktop schedules in sync. Is it useful? 6 months
> >    might be short without any real need for software that will be
> >    shipped on specific hardware. I don't know. Just raising the point.
> >    On the other hand, this is important for translations.
> 
> Mobile is a much more conservative platform in many respects.  I think
> this needs to be discussed with the GMAE partners 

Please see my other reply about this. OK, we will discuss it.

> >  + someone will need to figure out the scratchbox/jhbuild integration
> >    and make it easy for the release team to use it.
> > 
> >  + I like the Poky idea, although we'll probably need to have a specific
> >    server to build the packages. Or leave it to Matthew.
> > 
> >  + last but not least: is the current release team the best candidate to
> >    handle this? Most people in the release team only have a desktop
> >    background, and not a mobile background. Recruiting people from GMAE
> >    could help; another solution would be to have a mobile release team.
> 
> Well, except me.  OLPC is part of the GMAE initiative.  But yes I think
> the GMAE members need to put forth a couple of people who would work
> separately from the normal release team.  I think it is also a good way
> for us to sort of liaison between the Desktop and GMAE with shared goals
> such as kicking someones butt into gear getting dbus-gconf upstream ;)

Yes, this is what is being offered.

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