[squeak-dev] not everyone _can_ be a package czar!
Edgar J. De Cleene
edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Dec 16 11:25:38 UTC 2008
On 15/12/2008, at 18:45, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> It's more than that:
>
> We know that someone is supposed to test things for collateral issues.
> We know that someone will see if conventions established by the
> community are being followed.
> We know that someone will be supposed to document the bugs and code
> evolution.
> We know that someone will be supposed to care for more subtle
> problems like dealing with security issues.
> I don't like the term czar. In fact not a czar but a person or a
> group of people in charge of house keeping.
>
> Going to the best known example of large scale free software, Linux
> didn't catch up until we had:
> Coherent distributions
> People in charge of maintaining these distributions
> Assuring packages are coherent (directories, libraries,
> terminology, etc)
> Documenting things
> Receiving complaints from community (bugzillas and other kinds of
> complaints)
> Communicating problems to community
> Communicating committee decisions to community
> Communicating community requests to committee
> Before that Linux was a toy for students/researchers at
> universities. "Serious people" used SunOS, later Solaris, AIX,
> HPUX, Microsoft, MacOS...
>
> Current status is that squeak is still a toy for researchers. If
> some kind of organization doesn't emerge to deal with less
> attractive aspects of software life-cycle management, it will hard
> to find resources to ensure its future.
>
Ok. change the name.
Reviewer of Packages ? Pundit ? Marshal ?
Not the same person / group as the Release team.
Keith should take a decision.
Or he made the release , or he review , but no both.
The same person could't be President and Supreme Court Judge !
Edgar
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