Re: That "vision" thang...

Stephen> A plan that nobody intends to follow is useless. Of course. The reason for discussing it is to find a plan that we intend to follow, at least for the next few steps. The reason for following a plan is that it will be easier and more fun to collaborate on tasks and finish them. Not to mention the fact that the task at hand would be acknowledged as something that would be accepted as commitable. Stephen> We need to decide which are required for a release, and then Stephen> we can start planning the release. Yes. I have listed a few that I, obviously naively, think is necessary. Please contribute to that list by providing the items, bugs, task etc that you think is needed. Stephen> People who want to work on technically independent tasks Stephen> rather than the release should be allowed to do so, but they Stephen> should also be made aware that they're not helping with the Stephen> release. That is fine by me. The only problem there is if the independent tasks gets half checked in making main unstable. That is another reason for trying to focus on a few task and not trying to do everything in parallell. Stephen> I don't know. You seem to think a quick release is Stephen> important. But technically a "sync" is not a prerequisite to Stephen> a release, and putting it into the list of release tasks will Stephen> delay release by many months. Right but at some time getting more in sync might feel the right thing to focus on and then we do it. Then that will be the next item on the agenda. This will of course not include a sync of everything. This task will likely resurface at times etc. Stephen> In fact the only absolute requirement for a release is a Stephen> release manager. I'm not up to date with the role the release manager plays. Making a release ought to be a simple as agreeing we are done and setting the tag. The rest is process (but of course hard work) Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta