Re: Defining GNOME software (finally)

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

Hi everyone,

The board voted this through on Monday, and I've updated some bits of
documentation accordingly.

 - Tracker issue - https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/-/issues/166
 - Committees page - https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Committees/
 - Release Team page -
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/info/ReleasePlanning?action=diff&rev2=79&rev1=78

The only outstanding action is to update the Foundation trademark
policy with the details of the modulesets we count as "official". I'll
let you know when that's done.

Thanks!

Allan

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 14:35, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> 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