Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net) [131215 12:36]: > In practise, it has not worked out so well. In my experience, many > of the Wheezy release goals became "second-rate" goals - we simply > failed to follow up on those goals as we promised, we would. To me, > release goals became "that outsta

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-02 23:59, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi all, > Hi, > am I wrong or among the supporters of the concept of release goals, > there are no members of the release team themselves ? If yes, then > it may be more fruitful to explore alternatives. > I think there are (or, at least, were) som

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > On 01/12/13 at 23:32 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > I don't really see a problem in that - $someone decides on > > "technical project goals", whatever they are. And RT can decide that > > they should be for the next release. Or the one after. Set

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, am I wrong or among the supporters of the concept of release goals, there are no members of the release team themselves ? If yes, then it may be more fruitful to explore alternatives. The Debian Enhancement Proposals (DEP) have an advantage, as they provide a way to record whether a give

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-02 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> - There are project-wide changes to be done and someone needs to take a >>decision to do them to adjust some of our common rules to make them >>easier to do. Lets name them "technical project goals" >> - There are project-wide changes to be done that should be done in time >>for

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-02 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 02.12.2013 08:03, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > On 01/12/13 at 23:32 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> I would presumably put something like: * Release Team members decide on the release goals for stable releases >>> I think that a delegation would need to be a bit more specific in >>> defini

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-02 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 01.12.2013 21:03, schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: > that fictious goals such as "gcc 4.9 by default in jessie" or "GNOME > 3.14 in jessie" would totally be in the realm of the release team, but > are already covered in the delegation. a) please use real fictious goals. b) the choice of compiler versi

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/12/13 at 23:32 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > >> I would presumably put something like: > >> * Release Team members decide on the release goals for stable releases > > I think that a delegation would need to be a bit more specific in > > defining what "release goals" are, and what it means

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> I would presumably put something like: >> * Release Team members decide on the release goals for stable releases > I think that a delegation would need to be a bit more specific in > defining what "release goals" are, and what it means to have a goal > labelled as "release goal". At least for m

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/12/13 at 20:38 +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > > On 01/12/13 at 17:53 +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Can you explain why you think it would be a good idea to remove the > > > power to decide their own goals from a team, and why you think it >

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > On 01/12/13 at 17:53 +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > > > What goals are set for a given release seem to me to be something > > squarely in that realm, especially given that there is no 'stick' -

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/12/13 at 17:53 +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > > The need for review and feedback is another problem. It's often > > difficult to get feedback on a proposed change inside Debian. But I > > really don't think that it should be the release team's

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Stephen Gran wrote: > Can you explain why you think it would be a good idea to remove the > power to decide their own goals from a team, and why you think it would > be good for Debian to have one team drive another team's goals? This is > so different to how we us

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > The need for review and feedback is another problem. It's often > difficult to get feedback on a proposed change inside Debian. But I > really don't think that it should be the release team's job alone to > decide which project-wide improvements a

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-12-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/11/13 at 22:07 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 05:40:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Steve Langasek , 2013-11-29, 12:01: > > >What do you propose as a mechanism for agreeing to a reduced NMU > > >delay for archive-wide changes? > > > My proposal is to realize that

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 05:40:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Steve Langasek , 2013-11-29, 12:01: > >What do you propose as a mechanism for agreeing to a reduced NMU > >delay for archive-wide changes? > My proposal is to realize that reduced delay for archive-wide > changes is not needed. > Ser

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2013-11-29, 12:01: What do you propose as a mechanism for agreeing to a reduced NMU delay for archive-wide changes? My proposal is to realize that reduced delay for archive-wide changes is not needed. Seriously, such changes will take months or years anyway, so what does r

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:01:31 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> - Release Goals kind-of define Debian's technical agenda. However, one >> could >>   question whether it's really the role of the release team to decide >>   on this, r

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/11/13 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Release Goals > > = > > > > We discussed release goals in some depth at the recent sprint. > > > > The general consensus was that, whilst release goals have been usef

Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/11/13 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Release Goals > = > > We discussed release goals in some depth at the recent sprint. > > The general consensus was that, whilst release goals have been useful > in the past to introduce archive-wide changes, we should review > whether