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