Re: Release Team meeting at the beginning of January

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

2008/1/13, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 6:18 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
> > First of all, big thanks to Elijah for the trust!
> >
> > 2008/1/6, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>:
> > > I've also got an additional item for the agenda: I've asked Lucas
> > > Rocha if he'd be willing to take my spot on the release team after
> > > 2.22 is out, assuming the release team votes in favor of letting Lucas
> > > on the team.  It's been a while since anyone has proposed a
> > > non-immediate replacement (I think I was the most recent new member of
> > > the team to be such a case), but I think it'd allow me to handle the
> > > releases I volunteered for and help Lucas and our other relatively new
> > > members transition to their new roles.  We could handle it different
> > > ways, though:
> > >   - Have Lucas replace me only once 2.22 is out, but let him attend meetings and
> > >     subscribe to r-t to help him get the feel of things now.  (In
> > > other words, let him have
> > >     a transition period like I had, rather than the sudden jump into
> > > the fray that most
> > >     team members have received.)
> > >   - Expand the team temporarily to 9 members; let Lucas vote in the
> > > meeting tomorrow
> > >     and be coaxed into volunteering for all the hard tasks.  I remain
> > > on the team and
> > >     finish out the stuff I volunteered for, then leave after 2.22 is out.
> > >   - Have me leave the team now and have Lucas take my place immediately.  Use it
> > >     as an experiment in trying to distribute the release team work to
> > > the community
> > >     better, by having me be a community member doing the couple
> > > releases I already
> > >     volunteered for.  (Or maybe have Lucas try to handle one or two of them.)
> > > I'm fine with any of these options; there may be others as well.  I'd
> > > also be willing to help the release team out with an occasional point
> > > release in the future as a normal community member, if you want to
> > > experiment with distributing that work.
> >
> > I prefer the second one (expand the team temporarily to 9 members).
> > This way I can get some basic guidance and potentially assign myself
> > to some real tasks before 2.22 so that I can be at "full power" and
> > really contribute to the team in the beginning of the 2.23/2.24
> > development cycle. Also we would still have Elijah as a r-t member
> > until 2.22.
>
> Oops, I forgot to follow up on this after the meeting, didn't I?
> Others in the team preferred the first choice and we decided to go
> with it.  So, that means that you should sign up for the release-team
> mailing list now, Lucas, so that you can watch things going on, and
> you'll officially be part of the team when 2.22.0 comes out (which I
> have already noted at
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Membership; you should update
> that page when 2.22.0 is released to reflect the planned change).

Ok, nice.

> However, you already have at least one task already.  One of my action
> items at the meeting was "make Lucas work on the 2.23/2.24 schedule"
> (you can find more details in the meeting minutes[1]).  So, you've
> already got one task.  Another I think you should assign yourself is
> running through the steps at
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/MakingARelease, other than the
> svn commit step and steps that involve window.gnome.org (the svn
> commit and w.g.o. steps only account for about 2% of the effort).
> Then ask any questions you run into.  :-)

Working on the schedule would be a nice start, thanks.

--lucasr