On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tomeu, > > Thanks very much for stepping up with such good questions. I'm sorry > that I haven't got more in the way of answers, but here's what I've > got: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:18:33PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > What is the process we are going to use to decide what should people > > be working on? > > In a recent email entitled "Notes from a Planning Session" [1], I > wrote that we are soliciting feedback in order to publish a written > statement of what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why we want > to do it. > > [1]: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012659.html
In that wiki page is currently an edited transcript of an IRC conversation. Do you have already any kind of document with more explicit goals? > In more detail: Chris, Scott, and I are formulating a release strategy > for the next 8 or so months with detailed information about what we > hope to release in 4 months. It remains to be seen how the strategy > proposed by the Tech Team will be received by the sales team, the > deployment team, and by other interested parties; however, I am fairly > confident that, when presented, it will: > > * represent the diversity of views within the tech _team_ about the > risks and opportunities afforded by the recognized paths forward, > > * state and justify one primary path that we intend to take, and > > * explain our fallback plan if we encounter unsurmountable roadblocks > along our chosen path. Seems good to me. > In its final form, it will also explain what feedback we have received > from sales & deployment. In its draft form, it will propose a > reasonable deadline for revisions based on new feedback from those > teams. In which way will be written this draft? How do you plan to circulate the draft before presenting it to sales and deployment? > It is my firmly held belief that the availability of such a document, > signed by the relevant team members, would represent a major step > forward in our ability to explain what we're doing, who we're doing it > with, and why. Agreed. > Is this a satisfying answer to your question? Is an answer that makes me happy, but I still want to get more insight about how this process will happen, before considering myself satisfied ;) Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel