Le 12/03/2013 18:11, Galen Charlton a écrit :
To lay the groundwork for spreading the release work around, I intend to try the following experiments during my tenure as RM:
1. Naming module maintainers. +1 Over time, it might be possible that a trusted module maintainer would get authorization to push patches for their module directly to master. +10. Spreading responsibilities is really an improvement imo!
2. Naming master branch committers. +10
In time, this model might evolve to one where the release manager is just a named "first among equals" among the master branch committers whose primary responsibility is to be a final decision-maker in the case of dispute. Well, you can't be "first among equals" because you're not from Constantinople AFAIK (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primus_inter_pares#Eastern_Orthodox_Church) ;-) (kidding)
These experiments may or may not work, but with any luck during 3.14 we will succeed in laying some groundwork for the release management load to be shared. I hope it will work ! And if it does not work because of lack of volunteers, it does not mean it must be abandoned in the next release. This announcement/proposal is a little bit late for us (BibLibre), but I'll try to see if someone want to jump into a role.
If any folks are interested in becoming a module maintainer, please let me know. will do ;-)
My primary goal for 3.14 will be to significantly reduce the backlog of patches that has accumulated over the past few years. Good luck, you've all my encouragements (sincerely). How do you plan to do that ? Do you have already an idea ?
2. Building on the Solr and Zebra DOM work and efforts to rewrite the search-subsystem, with the goal of having true pluggable search backend support in 3.14.0. +10
3. Adding support for non-MARC metadata. +10 (same qustion as previously = do you have an idea how you'll do that ?
One of my concern atm, is to investigate how to improve performances and reduce load. I'll try to spend some time on that during next week hackfest. PS: I can't be at the meeting, and it's a shame. However, the votes shouldn't be a problem, as we don't have too much volunteers (as usual...) PS2: I haven't QAed a lot of patches in the last months. I hope that things will be better for the next release... -- Paul POULAIN - Associé-gérant Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 http://www.biblibre.com Logiciels Libres pour les bibliothèques et les centres de documentation