Re: [gentoo-dev] Conveying important upgrade messages to user community

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:46:50 -0500 Chris Gianelloni
<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
| On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:29 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > I suggest you take a look through the managers' meeting logs
| > regarding the decided upon set of rules for an arch releasing into
| > official rather than experimental. Then, once you've read them and
| > understand the requirements, come back and explain why x86 ended up
| > being exempt, despite the whole "x86 will not be exempt" thing.
| 
| How about you enlighten me, or better yet, point me to where I can
| find these precious logs.  I don't have copies of them, nor would I
| know which manager's meeting yo are referring to precisely.

The meeting in question was on 25 Oct 2004. Logs may or may not have
been posted to -core at some point.

| I've got an even better idea.
| 
| How about explaining why if there some some major decision made that
| would affect the release, that there was no notification of it other
| than having to weed through the logs from the manager's meeting?
|
| Perhaps that level of professional courtesy is a bit much to ask. 
| After all, I can't think of a single reason why the release team
| should be informed of changes made to the release process.  If this
| information was disseminated to the release team, then it never made
| it to me, and seeing as how I am the operational manager and acting
| strategic manager in zhen's absence, I would think I would be the
| *first* person that should have been contacted in such a situation.

*shrug* Don't ask me, that's a manager thing. If you're acting in zhen's
place as manager, I'd say that this would be one of *your* jobs.

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