Re: Defining GNOME software (finally)

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28 am, Allan Day <aday gnome org> wrote:
> The board is hoping to vote on this at its meeting later today. I 
> don't think that the vote will have a huge impact on the Release 
> Team, but if anyone has any reservations please let us know ASAP.

Well, besides what I've already mentioned... release team directs core 
technical work. I'm not sure it makes sense for the Board to be 
managing technical work?

> The key thing is that the power to decide official GNOME software
> resides with the Foundation. So in the arrangement you describe, the
> release team would need to get authorisation from a staff member
> whenever they want to add or remove a module from the official
> modulesets (core-developer-tools, core-os-services, core-shell,
> core-utilities).

We could have Emmanuele or another Foundation staff member approve such 
changes. I don't think that would be a problem.

Michael