Hi everybody, as you can remember, last year we discussed about the role and scope of the Release Team on our team meeting, and we raised that question to last year AGM. And this year those topics were raised again. First at the Q&A keynote, recently on the marketing list (although more oriented to marketing, "Release change proposal"), and again, at the Advisory Board meeting. So it would be good to conclude something here, for good or bad, instead of creating a new recurring topic on GNOME.
The response of the community during our AGM presentation last year was in general positive with respect to increase the current role and scope of the release team. After that AGM presentation, we had a follow-up Foundation IRC meeting, but the discussion went off track and no real consensus was reached. IMHO, the first thing to debate if we are willing to expand our role and scope, assuming that is what the Foundation members want us to do. If we are, then let's ask the community if that is what they want. If not, we should document with more detail what we are, what we do, and how far we will go on our duties. I mention "how far" because that was raised by Colin on our meeting here at GUADEC with the specific example of bluez migration. During the AdBoard meeting, Karen suggested that one approach might be to have the Foundation vote. This should make it pretty clear what the community feels about our role and the scope of our work. A tentative wording of the poll could be: "When there is a strong difference of opinion related to a change made within a core GNOME module, the Release Team has the authority to serve as mediator in the hopes of finding a solution which is agreeable to all parties. Failing that, the Release Team has the authority to veto the inclusion of the change in GNOME releases". FWIW, the difference with respect to what we have now. What we have now is the authority to veto the inclusion of some module if it is not working. In this case we are talking about working changes, but that are "problematic". In my head, a example of this would be what happened with Nautilus. So this was the objective message. About my personal opinion, I have some doubts, so I will wait a little before giving an opinion. Thanks for listening Best regards -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
