Hi,

The binary releases are just a connivence, the real release is actually the 
source code.

We could have a PDF version of the release notes for connivence of non dev 
types (just like the binaries) as long as:
- someone wants to create it
- people are willing to keep it up to date (and it would help if it was 
reasonably easy to do so)
- it shouldn't replace the existing text RELEASE_NOTES

> "We do not have a hierarchical structure" which it obviously does.
We don't. Anyone can look at the source code, take it and modify it, and 
contribute back (in any way) if they want. Anyone can sign up to and take part 
in discussions the mailing list. Anyone can raise issues in JIRA. Anyone can 
supply patches.

Being a committer or PMC member or even the chair just gives you a little more 
responsibility (ie you can get blamed fro breaking the build or tests) and some 
voting rights to give other people more responsibility :-)

> describing any type of vision or road map
The issue with road maps is that you don't know for certain who will work on 
what when so it's sort of hard to plan out in any detail. And unexpended things 
happen eg the new dpi skins in the 4.10/4.11 release are there because a user 
asked for them and helped test them out. OR the new mobile datagrid that was 
donated out of the blue OR the new performance enhancements to the ADG which I 
discovered by accident when profiling in Scout.

Thanks,
Justin

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