Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-15 Thread Zach Welch
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 08:26 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > My interest lies in a couple of things. I don't know what > "role" this translates into though: > > - recruit first rate maintainers. Actually I'm kinda done with this as > it seems we have a positive feedback loop now. This is "Recruiter"

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread Øyvind Harboe
My interest lies in a couple of things. I don't know what "role" this translates into though: - recruit first rate maintainers. Actually I'm kinda done with this as it seems we have a positive feedback loop now. - commit good patches to svn quickly so as to encourage contributors - keep an eye on

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread Zach Welch
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 20:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009, Zach Welch wrote: > > One point to make here is the conflicting desires of a "release manager" > > and "developers". At their extremes, the former would have us making > > stable releases every night, while the lat

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 14 May 2009, Zach Welch wrote: > One point to make here is the conflicting desires of a "release manager" > and "developers".  At their extremes, the former would have us making > stable releases every night, while the later would have us working madly > on the trunk (and to heck with r

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread Zach Welch
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 17:41 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > Alternatively, maybe the folk who now have responsibilities > > http://developer.berlios.de/project/memberlist.php?group_id=4148 > > could start by saying how they see their roles, and what they > see the process as being ... and what i

Re: [Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread David Brownell
Alternatively, maybe the folk who now have responsibilities http://developer.berlios.de/project/memberlist.php?group_id=4148 could start by saying how they see their roles, and what they see the process as being ... and what it *should* be, vs where it's now broken. (The "skills" pages are uni

[Openocd-development] openocd maintainer roles

2009-05-14 Thread Zach Welch
Hi all, The OpenOCD community has recently experienced a series of unpleasant situations that have negatively affected the project's cohesiveness. >From my perspective, the lack of clear and consistent policies and behaviors on the part of the project maintainers have been to blame for these si