On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:57:51PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 09:04 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 14:27 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
We should discuss this on Friday's IRC meeting.
Friday's meeting is a board meeting isn't it? I thought developer decisions like releases were more developer consensus on mailing list type things and less board responsibility.
(or is this just convenient discussion space?)
Yes, it is not the board's duty to make developer decisions. But I think the board does have the responsibility to aid (and prod) the developers to make decisions when needed as well as to support the execution of those decisions (e.g. fund a dedicated hackfest).
(it is also a convenient discussion space)
You're both right, and I do agree that having a meeting to get things going with the release is a great idea.
Traditionally we've often encouraged non-board-specific technical discussions to happen immediately following the board meeting. What if we had a short board meeting for say 20-30 min, and then a second followup meeting specifically to focus on release coordination discussions?
Sounds like we've crested the hill on the cmake work (we still need to do a comparison between the automake-generated dist and the cmake dist, to see if we're missing anything important). Once we're comfortable with what's in the dist, I can cut an alpha release - possibly as early as this weekend. I'm prepared to do a series of (bi-weekly?) pre-releases as we work towards the final release. Next step would be to start gathering a list of release blockers and recruit owners for getting those items examined; I would love it if someone could volunteer to coordinate/manage the release blocker bugfixing work.
Bryce