From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 1 May 2001
Date: 03 May 2001 05:50:02 -0400
Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 1 May 2001
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Presents:
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Havoc Pennington (chairing)
Miguel de Icaza
Raph Levien
Daniel Veillard (minutes)
Dan Mueth
John Heard
Owen Taylor
Bart Decrem
Maciej Stachowiak (:15)
Missing:
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Federico
Regrets:
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Jim Gettys
Decisions:
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- The board selected the Gnome-2.0 Release coordinators Martin Baulig and
Sander Vesik, asking them to build the Release Team for Gnome-2.0 with
the help of the others candidates
- The GNOME Foundation membership proposal has been approved as the
GNOME Membership Policy 1.0
Action Done:
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ACTION: Bart will follow the 'small conferences' meeting and will report in
one month
=> Rebecca will be the Conference Master for Gnome
She will double check that Guadec 3 can be done in Spain
ACTION: Maciej will post to Gnome-Hacker to get people stepping in as
Gnome-2.0 coordinator.
=> done
ACTION: Havoc make sure that we get the 2.0 volunteers and what need to get
done to start the release coordinator work
=> done
Action:
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ACTION: Havoc send the AB list to the board looking for completion
of the member liasons.
=> still pending
ACTION: John try to get a Copyright assigment form and procedure for the
GNOME Foundation
Discussion:
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- Fundation:
not much to report, still some lawyer work needed.
- Release coordinators:
Martin Baulig, Sander Vesik, George Lebl, Chris Lahey, Jonathan Blandford,
Peter Teichman and Dave Camp expressed interest in helping with the
GNOME 2.0 release, according to the discussions and plans that came out
of GUADEC. Also, Jody Goldberg wants to help on the office/apps part of it.
We selected Martin Baulig and Sander Vesik to take the lead on building
a Release Team and work with the folks who volunteered to put together a
GNOME 2.0 release plan. This will include a listing of all the top-level
tasks that need to be accomplished, along with preliminary due-dates for
each of these and a full committee roster with specific responsibilities
assigned to each team member.
We'd like to see quick progress on this, and have at least the committee
structure and responsibilities flushed out within 2 weeks.
It is relatively clear that the work of doing the release coordination
for GNOME 2.0 will be larger than what was needed for GNOME 1.4. We hope
that Martin and Sander will be able build a strong team covering the
various tasks needed, the following ones were listed (but the list is far
from complete):
- PR coordinator
- documentation/QA coordinator
- library freeze
- porting
- translation
- UI freeze
- Membership policy:
The community had many opportunities to review it. There were no negative
feedback. So we adopt the proposal as GNOME Membership Policy 1.0
Interesting points discussed:
- we want the Gnome project to stay open to anybody who want to contribute
to it
- Opening to the ISV community is okay but people should not just use it but
helping or contributing the project is still required to qualify.
Daniel
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