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On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:31 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Here is a list of interesting questions: "Are we fine?" "What are we |
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> going to do?" |
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> Please project leaders try to reply in short. |
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> About the stuff I'm involved: |
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> Are we fine? |
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GWN: The GWN is currently in a permanent state of hiatus. I have no |
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intentions on spending another minute working on the GWN. While many, |
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many improvements have been made in the processes for getting the |
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automated data, getting articles has been pulling teeth, at best. This |
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was taking me upwards of 12 hours a week, which was impacting the time I |
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had available to work on things like releases and my day job. As such, |
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the GWN is abandoned and will likely stay that way until someone steps |
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up and decides they're ready and willing to give up their lives to work |
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on this publication. Yes, I think switching to a monthly newsletter |
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would *help* the problem, but it still won't resolve it. The GWN needs |
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articles more than anything, and few people are submitting anything. |
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Release Engineering: We dropped the 2007.1 release due to many issues |
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which I won't go into here, since it really isn't appropriate at this |
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time. As such, we're deciding on what our plan is for 2008 and beyond. |
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We are working on finalizing the latest versions of genkernel/catalyst. |
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PR: Well, I'm not the lead here, but since the lead is AWOL, I guess |
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that I can give my input. This project is essentially dead. There are |
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a couple people who occasionally respond to user queries to the alias, |
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but otherwise, nothing is going on here. Nobody is really active. I |
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sent in some news about 2007.1 a few weeks back and nobody's posted |
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anything or even responded. I'd say the project is dead if we can't |
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even get out pertinent information like the cancellation of a release to |
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our users. |
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Trustees: Well, the Foundation no longer exists, legally, so it's pretty |
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obvious that things are not "fine" here. |
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> What are we going to do: |
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GWN: no clue, looks like nothing |
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RelEng: work on catalyst/genkernel, no further plans |
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PR: no clue, looks like nothing |
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Trustees: I retired as a Trustee since there's not much point without a |
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Foundation to run, leaving us with one (or possibly two) trustees. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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