Need to do something
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Oct 19 06:58:58 UTC 2005
On 19 oct. 05, at 00:11, Andreas Raab wrote:
> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> Yes please propose something that we can start building on top.
>>
>
> And I thought that was just what I did ;-) So again:
> - More maintainers. Actively look for people with a vested interest
> in the various areas and let them deal with whatever comes up.
> Trust them. Give them responsibility, let them decide which
> direction to take.
Yes
Give us some names :)
Because I would love that. We can deal with Kernel and friends +
compiler....
> - Change the role of what is currently understood to be the
> "harvesters" to something like a "release tester" group. The role
> of which group is mostly to do integration testing by loading the
> packages from the various maintainer's sites and test them. If
> there are issues the release testers should report them back to the
> package maintainers and work with them to fix these. Unilateral
> actions should only be taken if a maintainer is unresponsible and
> there is real time pressure.
>
> - Another task of the release maintainer could be (if that is
> deemed useful) to figure out how to load the various package
> versions to update an existing system. Or maybe that's the task for
> an entirely new group of people.
>
> Obviously, the main issue is #1.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
>
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