On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Craig L Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> >> Quoting Robert Donkin from the 14th December: >> >> "i've been floating the idea of a multi-stage audit to try to help >> podlings pass the technical side of their first release without too >> much pain. fancy trying it out?" >> >> I replied yes, it sounded like a good idea, but we've still to get details >> of what that involves. > > I'm not sure either. Robert is busy with some schoolwork so you might > inquire on the incubator list to see if he's communicated his ideas more > widely. I don't recall any details. given a project that's ready for it's first release (for example, have a working, documented and reliable build) there isn't any real need to actually produce an artifact using the full release process for most of the problems to be ironed out. most of the areas where podlings find difficulties could be reviewed long before the release but for this to work someone who's done a lot of review would need enough time to reach consensus on fully documented guidelines for these prior review processed. the basic idea is that: * reviewing the source for license type issues can be done from the source * if a podling wants to release a binary then the release process needs to be replicatable and documented. if it is then anyone should be able to build a sample binary release from the source and check the basic stuff podlings usually fall down on. once the podling understands how to do that stuff right, then the final bit of the jigsaw is understanding the voting process. - robert
