On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:31, Sankar P <sankar.curiosity@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Dominique Leuenberger <Dominique.Leuenberger@tmf-group.com> wrote:
Dear openSUSE GNOME interested users / contributors.
openSUSE 11.3 has landed and in a unstoppable effort, development on the next release has certainly already started.
Yet, we should try to step back for a few minutes, trying to analyze what we did right in this cycle, what went wrong, what do we want to repeat and what certainly has to be avoided.
I think, from my point of view, we managed pretty well during the entire cycle to stay up-to-date with upstream development and packages were almost up-to-date the same day GNOME Upstream had a release.
We had some very valuable bug reports coming in, but on those I'm afraid a big bunch started only coming in during RC phase, which was very difficult for to get all of them addressed in time.
Organizational, I would have to say though that we, the gnome team, were lousy in keeping up to any outlined schedule for meetings. Shame on us on this one! I'm sure having those regularly could make it easier for not-yet-contributors to jump in, having a decent starting point. Also, I feel we're lacking a up-to-date ToDo list, which we could also hand out to willing contributors to catch up with us (there are several application / packaging requests in openFATE of course... but not everybody wants to do packaging).
So, let's rumble, let's get all the feelings, good and bad out, let's learn from our mistakes and let's keep the good behaviour we developed for the next release.
Good:
- We did lots of testing (when compared with say 10.3/11.0 release) even though it started late, atleast imo.
- Obsoleting GTK 1.x, HAL.
- Moving away from beagle, pidgin etc.
- Highly responsive mailing list and irc activities
Needs Improvement:
- We need to start conducting #opensuse-gnome irc meetings (awafaa asked me to send the agenda for next meeting. so if you have any items, do send me)
- Missed sonar-icon-theme packaging. As sonar is the default theme, I consider this to be bad. Our defaults should always give an error/warning-free first impression.
- We should try for: Number of bugs upstreamed should not exceed Number of bugfixes/patches upstreamed. & last-but-not-least
- There is only one booster working for GNOME. We need atleast one more ;-)
yeah, what's going on with the booster team? Seems like it was off to a good start and then seems to of somewhat died. Whether that's true or not, we lost the other gnome guy almost instantly, connect stuff seems to have fizzed out, and there are no reports. Not much to go off of. If the booster team isn't really dead, it would be nice to know what going on since they are supposed to be dedicated to the 'community' release. (as far as I understood it). Plus if the community doesn't know what the boosters are working on then the community can't help as much, not to take away from all of the work that was done in gnome and kde. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org