Hi!
John Pfersich jp1660@att.net wrote:
I haven't been paying any attention for a while to the new structure that Goran has been promoting.
Mmm, are you referring to "The Coordinators"?
I find that lately its been really hard to follow the thread because the subjects do not reflect the topic being discussed. Is there a place that it's down on paper?
Well, what we (The Coordinators) have currently is this readonly swiki:
http://anakin.bluefish.se/castaways
On that swiki we have a few important things, first the reports (a new one is probably due soon):
http://anakin.bluefish.se/castaways/8
...and the structure of Teams:
http://anakin.bluefish.se/castaways/6
We will try to write down a single page about how we are working and how we are organized, I agree that a concise page on that is needed. The Team-page has a "manual" for how the Teams work though.
I had signed up for the maintenance of the Network section under Task Force November Revolution (TFNR). Will that change?
Change? Well, it is great you signed up - and nothing has really changed - but hopefully this time we are getting this show on the road. The TFNR thing got stalled/died and btw, this is the swiki page for it:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/661
The "Packages" team led by Avi has taken over that ball (TFNR) and Avi has recently created a new list (easiest to start from scratch) for people to sign up on parts of the image:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5641
The pages produced under TFNR still has value, and let us use those pages to:
- Find people that expressed interest earlier to do Stewarding - Use some of the results, like this for example: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3534)
I am crossposting this to the packages list btw, and if you are interested in TFNR/Packages etc, as I presume you are - join that list/Team which you find at:
http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org
I'm liking this over BFAV just because it's easier to see the Network stuff that I'm trying to maintain. I do have a question about how the stuff gets harvested (or whatever the term is now). How does that happen?
A few notes:
1. The Janitors team led by Ken Causey is handling how the harvesting process is migrating into the future. In the short term this means how we are moving over to Mantis and to deal with bug reports and fixes using that.
2. The Packages team (led by Avi) is figuring out how to partition the image (as per TFNR) and how we will live in that new brave world. How to deal with bugs/fixes in a partitioned image is still a somewhat open question - but the Janitors team is creating a model where we can use Mantis for that too (where you can select/filter based on "package" etc). Since I am reopening my work on SM now I also have a few ideas on how to help this - for example by adding a field with an optional email address for each package that can collect fixes/reports. STTCPW and all that! :) Also, 3.9 will probably include PackageInfo-Extras which has brand new changeset-splitting-based-on-PIs code in it, and some nifty menu choices in the changesorters for that!
3. The v3.9 team led by Doug Way has the final say on what goes on with version 3.9 that is sheduled for june/july. Since 3.8 is getting realeased Any Day Now (tm), 3.9 is the next frontier and one of the main components of 3.9 will be the result of the Packages team. Read more here:
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5645
Did this answer the more general questions?
regards, Göran