<div>Dear Peter,</div><div><br></div><div>Indeed this was a difficult release, basically due to openjdk and the last minute change of build method. I want to congratulate all contributors for their hard work.</div><div><br>
</div><div>A couple of thoughts:</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that team distribution makes things a bit slower in response times and harder to coordinate. On the other hand, having the team distributed helps supporting the community through the mailing lists and IRC all 24 hours. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Having a daily meeting (20:30 UTC) during the last weeks before release helped very much to coordinate our efforts. Many contributors managed to be present for the meetings, especially when a bug was to be fixed, so perhaps we should make this a weekly meeting now that the release is done.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The solution to the last minute pressure perhaps will come from the new build system:</div><div>We can now automate builds to be done daily, weekly or anything in between. This will give a chance to all projects included to evaluate their installation script during the release cycle. This of course will work if all projects step up and periodically take some time to check current builds for errors and failures of their software. If not, again we will try fixing things at the last minute...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it is a good start to evaluate the way we work and how we can do better.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Angelos</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Peter Baumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de" target="_blank">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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also my congratulations to the new OSGeo Live version - a unbelievable amount of work has been investigated by the team, as well as the project contributors. We will certainly contribute to getting it out to the crowd on several occasions coming up.<br>
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For the next iteration, we might consider a planning that saves some rush. Project teams like us are distributed over this planet and living in different time zones - so while it is high noon for some activist others might not be able to respond when it is past midnight in their place. Further, we all have our tons of daily obligations and, hence, may not be able to answer instantaneously. We might consider this, although I know - oh so well - the difficult balance between patience and pushing the team.<br>
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my 2 cents - and again, kudos to the team!<br>
-Peter<br>
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