Hi,
Dave Neary wrote: > I think we need to wrap this up as like this, and no more: > > We're moving to a 6 month/2 year time-based cycle. Our first 2-year > cycle started in March (that means we're now behind schedule! Ouch!) > > 2 year cycle: Identify big overriding theme - current low-hanging fruit > would be web integration, presence, geo-positioning, IM - the platform > for these exists, all that is needed is to turn that into real > user-available features - for each application or group of applications, > do the specification work (eg. Rhythmbox with an "Upcoming concerts from > this artist (and similar artists) in your area" - information all > available from Last.fm and geoclue - would rock). We're not going to get > all this done in one cycle, but it creates a goal, something to aim for > & push people towards > > 6-month cycle: As you were. Keeps platform & apps stable and evolving. > > For the moment, we've decided to move to the cycle. Now we need to have > a process which arrives at a finality - realistic user-targetted goals > which will benefit users, and not have us drowning in a massive rewrite. ... So, release team, opinions? I understand that Luis's rant (sorry Luis) may have been deflating, but I'm giving a lightning presentation on the State of GNOME at OSCon next week, and the 3.0 thing is bound to come up - I'd *really* like to be able to say something along the lines of "2 years between major releases, 6 month between incremental releases, and we've started the first cycle of that already - the release team is working with maintainers & community to plan the major arc of features for 3.0". Can I say that and not be telling a lie? Cheers, Dave. PS. I'm still unclear about what opening the big tent means exactly - does it mean having a number of criteria, and any application meeting those criteria becomes part of GNOME? Does that imply abandoning the release sets? -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list