Who like to be the representative from the marketing SIG? John -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Making release a snap Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:04:49 -0500 From: Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx To: fedora-advisory-board <fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx> During our releases -- whether development (Alpha, Beta, PR) or GA -- we sometimes run into one or two minor speedbumps, usually because there are so many processes to wrangle for each area of responsibility in Fedora. Some of these are documented, but probably not all. We want to tie together ambassadorial and marketing efforts with press releases, artwork and translations for the website, release of documentation such as the release notes and guides, static pages for the web, and so on. (If I missed your favorite area of expertise, my apologies.) While we don't want to bog down the doers with unnecessary process, we might be served well by having some sort of cross-project schedule of events. That way. when the Big Day arrives, all the relevant sub-project areas can simply check off their lists internally. Is there interest in trying to improve things this way? If so, we could do something like the following: * Each supporting sub-project could offer a point person, maybe the chair, or a delegate who's been around the release cycle a couple times. * The point person gathers a proto-schedule of the sub-project's responsibilities. (This may already be done, which makes this person's job much easier -- just send a link.) * I've asked John Poelstra to collect these, take a first shot at organizing them, and send copies back to the whole group. This is a similar process to what he already managed successfully for the overall release plan, only a more granular scale targeting release day in particular. * Next week (sometime between 25-29 February) we have a joint phone session to discuss the preliminary schedule, chase down any dependencies as needed, and determine if further action is needed. The goal is not to add to overhead, but to make the release day the flip of the switch for which we all yearn. In other words, release day becomes a non-event for us, and a BIG event for the rest of the world. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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