TeX-related release goals? (was: Release Team Meeting results (the Juelich Edition))
Hi,
do we want to make the teTeX->TeXLive transition (i.e. fixing
depends/Build-depends/...) a release goal? For reference, this is what
the RMs wrote about it:
Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
> * Release Goals are Goals that should be reached for a better overall
> quality of Debian, without them being Release Critical issues.
> * Open issues can be handled mostly as open release blockers by
> developers, i.e. that means that packages can be NMUed like with open RC
> bugs.
> * Also most of "our" tools can handle release goals, e.g. they can be show
> on bts.turmzimmer.net.
>
> To get a bit better overview, we decided to make a canonical list of
> Release Goals. For better structure, and to ease our all work, Release
> Goals have some preconditions:
>
> * Each release goal must be associated with one or two single developer(s)
> who should be able to give a status overview when the release team needs
> that information.
> * The (approximate) number of issues to be fixed needs to be identified
> (and most of them should be ready to filed as bugs).
> * There needs to be a long-term strategy to fix all filed bugs. If
> possible, all bugs should be filed with a patch or some instructions
> how to solve the problem.
> * There needs to be a long-term strategy that prevents new occurences of
> this issue.
>
> If these conditions are fullfilled, the responsible developers can ask
> debian-release@lists.debian.org to confirm a certain release goal. They can
> (of course) also propose a short name for tagging the bug reports.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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