Ahoy,

On Friday 02 June 2006 19:09, Danil Dotsenko wrote:
> But that was the whole point of "safety net" idea. With advanced warning
> combined with thought-through "public safety net framework" - there
> shouldn't be a need for highly-involved coordinator. One would just timely
> initiate the process and mark the milestones.
>
> Question: Historically, what is the chance of a release actually happening
> on the before-hand-planned release date? Can we rely on them, or would
> watching the "commit tag" be a better approach?

I think the only way we'll be able to work it is with a coordinator. Thinking 
back the process has worked best when one person has been ultimately 
responsible. With no person or persons responsible, everybody tends to think 
somebody else will magically sort things out. All it really requires is that 
one person is responsible for saying "hey guys and gals, the release is due 
in a week", and if for some reason the promo community is asleep at the wheel 
that person should be able to get a reasonable press release out him or 
herself.

The coordinator(s) should be in the Marketing Working Group so they are fully 
aware of KDE's overall marketing strategy when it comes to key messages and 
so on in press material. The MWG can keep in touch with the Technical Working 
Group, who have the ultimate responsibility for release dates. If the release 
date slips the TWG should tell the MWG, who can update the promotion 
community.

That seems fairly simple and transparent to me, without losing the grassroots 
character of this promotion community.

Thankfully we can use the remaining 3.5.x releases to keep refining the 
process, so that by the time we get some KDE4 releases approaching we don't 
have these problems! That or we convince some company to sponsor a KDE press 
person ;-)

Regards,
Tom

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