Imagine the release just got out the door; what needs to be ready at this point to get everything running smoothly ?...
Newcomers
We need some structure to welcome newcomers (developers and others) effectively. I think many -- everything is relative -- people with various skills will come and may ask things like :
Where can I help ?
I want to port [insert favorite software from linux] !!!!
Many others...
We should make sure that we can “steer” them to the correct teams (according to their tastes).
I’m proposing myself as a release coordinator for the upcoming Alpha Release, and here are the highlights of the plan.
First, this plan shouldn’t be applied before those conditions are met :
the LiveCD works quite good (with no major issues left). My understanding of that topic is that we still need the FS overlay (that allows attributes over iso9660) to support live queries. If there is anything more to add to this point, please comment. Plus, the ioscheduler should be tweaked to enhance the user experience using that media.
all the criticals (blockers) issues already identified are fixed. I see that a lot of them have already been taken care of; that's good! :)
So basically, my plan tries to moderate the pressure on the developper workforce while at the same time optimize the benefits from the release (attention from the community at large, etc..)
What I propose is to set a condition list, that when all met, will trigger the countdown. So here is the basic timeline I propose :
