hej folks, hi elijah, Am Dienstag, den 01.08.2006, 10:20 -0600 schrieb Elijah Newren: > You have run across the release team's path. What have you done wrong > to have the release team seek you out, you ask? It has to do with > your work. You're doing lots of it. You've triaged more bugs than > anyone else this year, by a large margin. for the large margin, blame olav - we had a contest going on. ;-) > And, well, we like it. And > there's a vacancy on the release team, which we are wondering if you > would be willing to fulfill. it's a great honour for me, but i definitely feel the need to write down some clarifications. i started as a normal user (which i still consider myself) and have been working (user support, QA, bug triaging) on "evolution only" for three years now, which ended up in becoming the bugmaster for this application. i hope it was already well-known that i'm a non-technical guy and do not write any code (i don't even know C) before some people proposed me as a candidate for this job. i have built evolution cvs head and its dependencies with jhbuild, but i have never built the entire gnome stack myself yet, and it seems like i will not be able to try this for gnome 2.16 (reason is that for the next three or four weeks i unfortunately will be hanging out on a slow modem connection and cannot be on irc that often due to my summer job). and i haven't been that much involved into *gnome* - okay, i read planet.gnome.org regularly, i attended guadecs to collect some free beers, and i am subscribed to some gnome related mailing lists, but that has been all (i only recently subscribed to desktop-devel-list and devel-announce-list). so i guess it really depends on the responsibilities i would have, because i have the strong feeling that i just should not apply for things that i cannot perform. ;-) after having a private irc discussion with elijah, i have taken a look at http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks and http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks/ByTime . i guess i have the skills to set up schedules, to write reminder emails/calls, to nag people more or less successful (hehe) or to collect and analyze bugzilla data, but i am currently unable to make/test releases/tarballs (i have never done that before) and will be very bad in technical discussions and decisions, like defining module lists or new functionalities and API. however, of course i can learn. to me, it would be very interesting to find out (=private email?) what all y'all expect from me (or at least these folks that proposed me) - what kind of impulses, improvements or changes do you expect from me when i would become part of the release team? so i think it is up to you to decide - if you still think that i am the right person that fits into the vacancy and that i would be enriching to the release team, then i am willing to take this responsibility, to learn some stuff that's new to me, and to do my very best by working in a team with you, to make gnome even better and more successful. (yes, please CC me on answers.) cheers, andre -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de
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