Re: Setting a schedule for CA evaluations

2008-10-12 Thread Frank Hecker

Eddy Nigg wrote:
Shouldn't have been there an announcement for bug 371362 or shall we 
simply follow the schedule? I guess a summary from you would be in any 
case useful as you've done with Microsec. Please advice...


Sorry, there wasn't an announcement because I was too busy with other 
stuff to close out phase 1 of public comment on Microsec. I'm going to 
make some comments on Microsec, and then push the whole schedule back a 
few days to account for my delays. My apologies...


Frank

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Re: Setting a schedule for CA evaluations

2008-10-11 Thread Eddy Nigg

On 10/02/2008 07:37 PM, Frank Hecker:


OK, if no one cares one way or the other I'll move the start of public
comments to Thursdays.



Shouldn't have been there an announcement for bug 371362 or shall we 
simply follow the schedule? I guess a summary from you would be in any 
case useful as you've done with Microsec. Please advice...


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Re: Setting a schedule for CA evaluations

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Hecker
Eddy Nigg wrote:
> Yes, if possible, please make the announcement at Thursday's, which 
> would allow for scheduling for the weekend (I review CAs indeed usually 
> at weekends).

OK, if no one cares one way or the other I'll move the start of public 
comments to Thursdays.

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Re: Setting a schedule for CA evaluations

2008-10-02 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 10/02/2008 06:11 PM, Frank Hecker:
> I've published an initial version of such a schedule at:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Schedule
>

This is absolutely fantastic, well done! I was already worried what's 
happening with all the pending requests, this sounds to me organized and 
doable.


> * Right now I have the public comment periods starting on Mondays. If
> people would prefer the comment periods to start on other days I'm open
> to changing this. (For example, another option would be to start comment
> periods on Friday, for people who like to look at these over the weekend.)
>

Yes, if possible, please make the announcement at Thursday's, which 
would allow for scheduling for the weekend (I review CAs indeed usually 
at weekends).

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Setting a schedule for CA evaluations

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Hecker
My apologies for having gone silent for a while; with Mark Surman (the 
new Mozilla Foundation executive director) coming on board I've been 
busy helping him get started and taking care of related 
responsibilities. However I now have more time, and I'm going to be 
devoting it to getting more CA request processed.

Right now we have over 40 CA requests in the queue. After thinking about 
it, I have decided that the best way to proceed is to have a published 
schedule for when we will look at each of these requests. This will 
provide some predictability for the CAs, give us deadlines we can work 
toward, and allow us to be held accountable for meeting those deadlines. 
I've published an initial version of such a schedule at:

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Schedule

There are some additional points worth commenting on:

* I'm going to try for one CA request processed per week, which means 
that at any given time we'll have two CAs in public comment periods. We 
can revise the schedule later if it turns out that we can process 
requests faster than one per week, or if it turns out that we need more 
time for particular CAs.

* Right now I have the public comment periods starting on Mondays. If 
people would prefer the comment periods to start on other days I'm open 
to changing this. (For example, another option would be to start comment 
  periods on Friday, for people who like to look at these over the weekend.)

* I am no longer going to try to coordinate CA evaluations with the 
Firefox release schedule, at least not explicitly. It was just too 
difficult, especially when code freeze dates kept changing. If for some 
reason we'd like to get a particular CA's request processed for a 
particulare Firefox release, we can just revise the schedule to put the 
CA into an earlier slot.

* The current schedule has only two CAs scheduled. I will add more CAs 
to the schedule as I figure out what the state of their requests is, and 
whether and when they're ready to go into the public comment phase.

If you have any questions or comments about this please let me know.

Frank

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