Greetings folks.
I've changed the way things work with regard to keeping track of who
is participating in the simultaneous release. Previously, you just
had to flip a bit in the project metadata; now, you have to announce
your participation on the cross-project-issues-dev mailing list.
This has several advantages:
First, a project needs to have at least on representative as a
member of the list to announce. This seems pretty obvious, but there
have been multiple examples in the past of projects that were
unaware of important messages and discussion because they didn't
have this representation.
Second, announcing on the list provides better transparency and
openness. The community will have a much better chance of
understanding what each participating project is doing and have a
much more obvious opportunity to ask questions and otherwise
participate.
Third, it'll be harder for projects to "sneak in" after the fact.
Believe it or not, there are multiple examples of projects who have
"flipped the bit" on participation with older (past) releases.
So... If you intend to participate in Luna, please do the following:
* If you have not already done so, create a release record [1] for
the release that you're contributing to Luna. Note that the Luna
release date is June 25/2013.
* Enter at least plan information for the release, minimally
including a description and milestones. The release's description
should minimally describe the main focus of the release. Please also
consider adding a theme or two. This sort of information is really
easy to add and update using the PMI. Note that you do not
necessarily need to use the PMI for your plan, but please at least
include a description of the release in the PMI record.
* If you have not already done so, sign up for the
cross-project-issues-dev mailing list
* Send a note to cross-project-issues-dev with the name of your
project, number of the release to include with Luna, and the offset
(+0, +1, +2, ...).
If you have any questions, please coordinate with your Planning
Council representative [2], PMC, or me (via
emo@xxxxxxxxxxx).
Thanks!
Wayne
[1]
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Project_Management_Infrastructure/Project_Metadata#Releases
[2]
https://projects.eclipse.org/content/planning-council-representative
