OpenMandriva Project Status Context: ---------
This is a rather technical status report done by TC and aimed at the interested project members. This report is no secret, but no press release and just for internal use. Major points: -------------- - On the road towards release - minimal management structure in place - Prague physical meeting approaching Detailed information: ---------------------- "On the road towards release" We have a strong history of communicating "it's finished when it's done" or "another 2 months" when asked for a release date of the 2013.0 distribution. Now, with the end of the year coming close, and with the help by a lot of individuals not only coming from the core technical teams but also from people who just joined (back), we're finally inside a strict timeline we plan to fulfill. The timeline can be found here: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/2013.0_release_plan The still progressing Release Notes can be found here: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/2013.0/Release_Notes By the time of writing this report the release still isn't done, and there still are some bugs which might keep our days busy, but with a bit of luck we will be sticking to this timeline. "Minimal management structure in place" OpenMandriva had several months and tries with different ways of management the technical parts of the project. You all know that we also had our share of heated debates over that. For this release to finally work out and for the near future TC had decided to formalize some more aspects of it's management structure. This had been getting positive resonance from other Teams like QA, as well as been agreed on by the association. So until further notice defined roles are in place. The structure of the technical parts of the project can be found here: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Project This mostly comes down to have 3 people with management roles, which are TPG, bero and me serving as Project Manager, Release Manager and Point of Contact. With the management partially distributed over three people the times where nobody is reachable to do or decide sth are minimized now. "Prague physical meeting approaching" This weekend a core group from the active teams inside OpenMandriva will be at a physical meeting in Prague. This meeting is thought to find a common understanding on quite a few topics concerning technical as well as strategic fields. The details / agenda for the Meeting can be found here: https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Meeting_Pragues_2013 We still try to figure out if some kind of live streaming will be possible and aim towards doing that, as we could not get everyone to Prague. However, there will be meeting notes for sure. Closing words: --------------- We aim to do these status reports more often, although most possible can guarantee that most of these reports will have a bit smaller topics than this one. We really like to thank you for all your contributions to the project. We could never have gotten as far as we are now without the help of all the volunteers following the tale of OpenMandriva. So.. let the story proceed, and read you next time! TPG, bero, arisel
