Hi From the inception of Skolelinux the steady stream of PR releases was the single most important motivation factor, both for developers and end-users. Because we had a release manger, in Petter Reinholdtsen, which was able to release working code on a regular basis the foundation for a successful free software project was present.
Unfortunately the work necessary to create the releases is time consuming and hard work, and Petter decided to cut down on the daily hours spent on building releases after the release of 1.0. Petter had hoped that his work was picked up by someone else. Luckily Finn-Arne has for a long time worked on the Sarge version of Skolelinux and he is now providing PR releases of the next release. Finn-Arne is building the PR releases in his spare time and he needs help to be able to complete the high number of tasks between now and the next version of Skolelinux. Since it's absolutely critical that we release often and it's a lot of work the release manager job must be done by a group of people instead of one individual. In a meeting between Slx Debian and Frisk I therefore proposed that we formed a release manager team with Finn-Arne Johansen and two other old timers in the project; Ragnar Wisløff and Klaus Ade plus myself as the team servant. Part of the teams job is to create a job description, list the responsibilities and create the statutes (deadline 2005-12-01). The board of Frisk approves the initiative. Any feedback is highly appreciated. Regards -vidar
