On Du, 01 apr 12, 10:51:57, David Prévot wrote: > Le 31/03/2012 15:36, David Prévot a écrit : > > Le 31/03/2012 04:36, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > > >> Do you think it would be possible to get a few days heads-up on the > >> proposed freeze date? > > > > you can expect a freeze on the Friday preceding the issue > > Looking back at my previous message, I realize it could have sounded a > bit rude, sorry about that. No worries :) > In order to be a little more constructive, > let me share some thoughts we recently had while discussing the > publicity workflow (those are mainly if not exclusively Francesca's > ideas, who is taking care of mostly if not all the DPN work these days, > so she may correct if needed). > > In order to write smoothly the DPN, we could really better share the > work: it's OK to write and organize the last missing bits the Friday > before the issue, but it's less effective if we write it all at the last > minute form scratch. We add some TODOs when we see DPN material during > the two weeks, but we are not really good to draft stuff before the last > Friday, even if some people actually replied to the recent call to help > the publicity team. Maybe should we have a regular (short) IRC meeting > once every two weeks (the weekend we don't actually send the DPN), in > order to share the TODO items of the DPN and of other publicity fronts. > Any thoughts about this proposal? While I know IRC is very valuable, IMVHO you may be excluding potential contributors[1] if you don't somehow include those following only the mailing list(s). [1] me excluded, not been much of a contributor anyway :p How about posting the IRC log? > Also, as suggested in the wiki [1], subscribing to the repository > commits list [2] can be a very good indicator of the activity, > especially for those who are not following on IRC (it also helps to > avoid reverting improvements made by other reviewers for consistency). Yes, I'll try that and see how it goes. Thanks, Andrei - off to subscribe to yet another mailing list -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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