On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:12:06PM +0200, Vidar Bakke wrote: > Hi Hello, The thread is probably cold, so I kept the complete original message. > From the inception of Skolelinux the steady stream of PR releases was > the single most important motivation factor, both for developers and > end-users. Because we had a release manger, in Petter Reinholdtsen, > which was able to release working code on a regular basis the foundation > for a successful free software project was present. > > Unfortunately the work necessary to create the releases is time > consuming and hard work, and Petter decided to cut down on the daily > hours spent on building releases after the release of 1.0. Petter had > hoped that his work was picked up by someone else. Luckily Finn-Arne has > for a long time worked on the Sarge version of Skolelinux and he is now > providing PR releases of the next release. Finn-Arne is building the PR > releases in his spare time and he needs help to be able to complete the > high number of tasks between now and the next version of Skolelinux. What are PR releases ? > Since it's absolutely critical that we release often and it's a lot of > work the release manager job must be done by a group of people instead > of one individual. In a meeting between Slx Debian and Frisk I therefore > proposed that we formed a release manager team with Finn-Arne Johansen > and two other old timers in the project; Ragnar Wisløff and Klaus Ade > plus myself as the team servant. Part of the teams job is to create a > job description, list the responsibilities and create the statutes > (deadline 2005-12-01). > > The board of Frisk approves the initiative. Any feedback is highly > appreciated. Things I didn't (dare to) ask before: * At which website is the existence of the release team documented? * How to contact the release team? * Where to look for activity of the release team? > Regards > > -vidar Cheers Geert Stappers
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