Recent discussions around the release as well as during the release preparation meetings we had these days lead to realize that our team suffers from some misunderstandings/disagreements/whatever about the "Who does what" topic. We also suffer from low resources but sometimes have hard time telling the people who contact us and want to help what they could help about. In an attempt to try giving us opportunities to do all this better, I imagined that I could collect a list of atomic "tasks" that have to be done during D-I development cycles. The point would then be to put along with these tasks, some names. Those would be the people "responsible" for the said task(s), hopefully with a backup, for the most critical tasks (we could also identifiy what tasks are "critical"). Please find below a very first attempt to build such list. This is not sorted at all, but more the way things came up to my mind and mostly intended to give you an idea of what I'm thinking about, here. Please feel free to comment, add suggested "tasks" (I probably omit many of these, the former and current release managers can probably tell more). Don't be scared by the number of tasks and the low number of ppl we can put in face of them. We know we are short in resources..:-) Here we go: Initial answer to installation reports Maintain the "wished features" list and the release goals list Maintain the errata Maintain DebianInstallerToday Prepare Release announcements Maintain web site Interface with porters Porters powerpc alpha m68k mips/mipsel arm ia64 x86 amd64 Ack unblock requests from the RM team Organize team meetings Maintain i18n Validate new committers Maintain Installation Guide contents Maintain Installation Guide translations Track Installation Guide builds Manual non regression tests Automated D-I tests Packages maintenance: aboot-installer anna apt-setup arcboot-installer auto-install base-installer bterm-unifont cdebconf cdebconf-entropy cdebconf-terminal cdrom-checker cdrom-detect cdrom-retriever choose-mirror clock-setup colo-installer console-setup debian-installer-utils debootstrap efi-reader elilo-installer etch-support finish-install flash-kernel glantank grub-installer hw-detect installation-locale installation-report iso-scan kbd-chooser kernel-wedge kickseed libdebian-installer lilo-installer live-installer localechooser lowmem lvmcfg main-menu mdcfg media-retriever mklibs mountmedia netcfg net-retriever network-console nobootloader oldsys-preseed os-prober palo-installer partconf partitioner partman-auto partman-auto-crypto partman-auto-lvm partman-auto-raid partman-base partman-basicfilesystems partman-basicmethods partman-crypto partman-efi partman-ext2r0 partman-ext3 partman-jfs partman-lvm partman-md partman-multipath partman-newworld partman-palo partman-partitioning partman-prep partman-reiserfs partman-target partman-xfs pkgsel prep-installer preseed quik-installer rescue rootskel rootskel-gtk s390-dasd s390-netdevice s390-sysconfig-writer sarge-support sibyl-installer silo-installer srm-reader tzsetup udpkg usb-discover userdevfs user-setup vmelilo-installer yaboot-installer zipl-installer --
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