From SUSE side, we have detected already some points of improvements and more will arise the following weeks. We area specially interested in those actions

Hi, this is the first of three e-mails related with 12.2 Release. It deals with the diagram done about the Release process. A. Background We have invest some effort in talking internally to the people from different departments involved in openSUSE Release process to define the actions that each one of them take to make each release happen. We have concentrate in those that are currently happening or will need to take place the following weeks. We having consider most of those that take place during the Candidate release process or before that. We also haven't consider promotion activities that we do after each release. But above all, we haven't consider yet most of the work you guys do. Our team is willing to receive you input, so we can analyze together how to approach the next release trying to be even more efficient and engage even more people. that we currently we do internally and can be opened and those that already are, but for several reasons, the community cannot help us on. This process is part of the strategy of empowering more and more, little by little, the community in key aspects for the project. B. The documents We have used a simple tool (planner) to make a simple Gantt diagram with the tasks. The goal at this point is just to have a picture of what needs to be done and who is responsible for doing it. We will go further in following releases, adding time lines (start and finish dates) and effort (manpower involved) where is possible. We are already using this document internally for managing the tasks that we are currently doing. C. Why we think your input is needed This document must be accurate to be effective. Right now it only contains SUSE vision, which is partial, of what our release process is. We want to include those tasks you do or you participate on so it becomes useful also for others. We believe it can become a key element in the release process coordination in the near future. It is also an opportunity of defining the tasks we will be doing the following weeks to make openSUSE 12.2 happen. Please check the openSUSE 12.2 Release Process[1] wiki page for details. D. How to contribute We have identified some groups of people that work on the Release in an organized way and some other less organized. Some examples could be: * Editors * Translators * Technical contributors (organized around opensuse-packaging@opensuse.com) * Ambassadors * This contributors organized around the marketing mailing list * Artwork team There are probably several others we are missing. Since we are in the middle of the Release process, it would be great is those groups name a coordinator or one person from each group steps up and give us some input about the tasks they do during the release. Please feel free to edit directly the wiki page and add to the table the tasks. Ludwig Nussel[2], one of the new engineers on the openSUSE Team at SUSE will process and include you input in the document. If you contribute but are not organized in a group or simply prefer to use mail instead of editing the wiki, post what you do during the release process in this mailing list. We will discuss and include your input in the document. It doesn't matter if you work on the technical side, marketing, artwork, promotion.... all counts. It is extremely important that you include as soon as possible those tasks directly related with the Public Release phase in the 12.2 Public Release Action Plan table[3], since we want to make sure we don't skip them for 12.2 Release. [1] Release Process wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_process [2] Ludwig Nussel http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_process#Organization_chart [3] 12.2 Public Release Action Plan: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Public_Release_Action_Plan Saludos -- Agustin Benito Bethencourt openSUSE Team Lead at SUSE abebe@suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org