Re: Next release

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 17, 2005, at 8:13 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> It's probably not necessary to burden "core developers" with these 
> tasks if others are willing to help out.  There are some people who do 
> a lot of coding in base and gui and tend to give advice on patches and 
> the like.  If any of them want to serve as release manager for base, 
> gui, or back then that's great.  But it if not, that's great too, as 
> long as they can coordinate with someone else who handles the 
> mechanics of managing bug reports, doing stabilization branches, etc.. 
>  In this model, the release manager gets advice on technical issues 
> and good time points for releases from the technical folks, who go on 
> concentrating on coding and reviewing patches.
>
> Communications are important -- this would only work if there were 
> specific designated people the release manager could contact with 
> questions and who are committed to helping them with decisions.
>
> If this could be set up, then it might also be possible to consider 
> some kind of regularized release schedule, which might help people 
> delivering apps, packaging for distributions, etc..

Sounds like a good idea.  We could use someone who is only moderately 
familiar with the libraries to collect suggestions and draw up a 
release plan