Hello Artwork, Docs, L10n, Marketing, and Websites teams! First, I hope you all have a happy holiday season, and enjoy some time with friends, family, and loved ones. We've had a really big year in Fedora and I am so incredibly proud to have worked with all of you each day. We've pushed out two incredibly great releases of Fedora this year, Fedora 9 and 10, each stronger than the one before. As we are now deeply into the Fedora 11 development cycle, I've been thinking we really all want to know the various team interdependencies before we get to the Alpha phase of the release. If one team has a particular deadline, and that requires input from some other team to complete, we want to know that. In the best possible world, each team will be producing what its partner needs in plenty of time for that partner team to work effectively, and so on down the line. We've had release day planning meetings over the last couple of releases which have helped, I think, quite a bit to ensure people have what they need from other groups. We have an opportunity to make this process work even more smoothly, and driven more by each team, if we can figure out the very broad tasks that each team has to complete for a release, and map them out on the release schedule. Some of the teams receiving this message have done preliminary (or maybe even more) work on the schedule already, which is fantastic. I think FUDCon gives us a chance to bring together people from most of your teams to flesh that work out where it's helpful. I don't believe we need to "finish" the schedule, and that might be a hazy goal anyway. We'll probably end up finding places where we can refine it after this release to do even better for Fedora 12. But each iteration brings us something that we can use to help releases go more smoothly. Many of us are volunteers, and we all still want to know, first and foremost, that our work is important, and valued in Fedora. The work we do is far more important than simply hitting a date on a calendar. But we also all want to know that we are helping our fellow community members, and that each of us is doing our best to help Fedora move forward as a project. I've asked John Poelstra to help me put together a hackfest at FUDCon Boston 2009, bringing together people from each of your teams to talk through these interdependencies and record them. The result, I believe, will make each succeeding release easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable. -- 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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