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2012-02-20
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Seems like a good idea: some clear goal setting and definition by a mixture of CSSU developers, as well as devoplers (?) from other maemo projects. Apart from anything else, advertising feature-freezes for a given release would be worthwhile. Then there's the fun task of raking through bugs and suggestions - all needs doing but if not managed outside the development itself, my small coding experience is, the drive to make something new can compound hidden errors and digress the main flow of the project.
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2012-02-20
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What would a TSG do? We know that and I proposed a few examples. Jaffa questioned candidate eligibility, but ironically named two obvious candidates at the same time. Making a sensible and consistent set of architectural decisions? Well, that's sort of the point of the proposal.
Ask Pali about what happened in kp and if he would like to have had some of Council's authority to directly tell Nemein what to do. I hope this proposal, if adopted, would solve that kind of problem for CSSU.
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2012-02-20
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True. I do wish we get more discussion of CSSU. My impression is that new features are pushed out by a small group of CSSU devs at their discretion and the challenge is communicating those features. The "management" has to have a light touch, I think organization or coordination are better descriptions.
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2012-02-20
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I don't consider mentioning MAG & merlin1991 as "ironic". They're part of the "core devs" making decisions and doing work.
Is it an election or a selection? If the former, who can vote? If the latter, who decides? What if someone is (s)elected who can only point and say "do this"? The CSSU developers (and contributors in other ways) are volunteers.
Buzzword overload. What's "kp"?
It would be helpful if you could be clearer about the problems you are you trying to solve; before focusing on a solution. I'm not suggesting it is any of these:
Is it things not being done for the CSSU by Nemein?
Is it architectural decisions on the CSSU not being made (can you point to threads where someone arguing for something did so lucidly and got no resposne/was shot down)?
Is it project management around promoting things to stable from testing?
The solutions for each of these may be different, or they may be an all encompassing TSG.
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2012-02-26
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2012-02-26
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I don't think CSSU needs a formal TSG right now, as that TSG tends to consist of >50% of the active developers of CSSU.
I'm not an active developer in terms of code or maintenance contribution, but nobody will doubt I'm an active contributing member of #maemo-ssu, and if anything, I always defined my own role in this project as sth *very* close to a TSG though without any real powers aside from being an old ranting fart that can really annoy and be stubborn. ;-)
I think some of the developers appreciate and value this role I try to fulfill, and if council wants to assign some powers regarding talks to Nemein etc to me, I'd probably accept that additional burden. I don't however accept any role that would put me in a position where by definition my word counts more than that of any other developer, on any discussion inside CSSU. In simple words: I'm not anybodies boss, for the good or the bad. If anything, consider me (or any TSG, for that topic) a consultant and referee.
BTW I generally wonder if it's wise to have any active (in that project) developers in any TSG, as those usually are biased at least when it comes to their own project - this is a comment not targeted at the particular situation but rather meant to point at a general consideration.
Anyway Mohammad wasn't really the driving power of CSSU during the last 2 or 3 month (no criticism!) and also been the one with most 'powers' in CSSU so far, so what's it worth to nominate him for some TSG? Would that change anything?
For sure one thing is fundamentally true: right now there's no defined process in or around CSSU that says what goes into CSSU and what will not. We got a 'manifest' stub which I frequently quote, but no process defined. We managed to handle this 'by acclamation' so far, mainly happening in #maemo-ssu, and usually involving one or 2, max 3 active devels of CSSU (do we have more than 3 anyway? ;-D) plus my rants and comments that are often requested for by those devels. This may or may not work for the future, but anyway it won't hurt if the devels and the founders of CSSU (yes there are those as well) would agree on some common sense regarding this, and write it down somewhere in 2 sentences so everybody can read it when (s)he feels like.
Now sorry if the above is not giving a clear notion and point of view, it was meant to dump some possibly disconnected random thoughts here.
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2012-03-04
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