[csw-maintainers] Thematics month proposal

[Chad Harp]

I like the idea and I've got another theme for you (or perhaps and 
extension of the April theme):  Clean up remaining libtool (*.la) files 
(even if it's just repackaging old builds).

Somewhere in here should fit a release schedule for the stable branch.

William Bonnet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since OpenCSW is a pretty young project, if we consider the point of 
> view of the new organization, website, tools, buildfarm, etc. there are 
> a lot of things to do, to improve or to update.
> 
> We will have to work of this different things, and we need some minimum 
> coordination of effort. I was wondering about a way to make things 
> happen and happen faster and to optimize effort. What about creating 
> thematic months ?
> 
> The proposal is to focus for a given month on a specific subject. Of 
> course it does not mean that other subject cannot be processed or should 
> not. It does not mean that it has to be mandatory. But it could help to 
> define a roadmap, and create some motivation to work on given subject.
> 
> 
> For instance themes could be (just an example...)
> 
> February : communication
> 
>    goal is to improve web site, add content, write presentation of the 
> project and tools (, slides, etc. to produce all the material we will 
> need to make presentation, improve google rank, communicate with Sun and 
> other corporates, create links and relation with other open source 
> project etc.)
> 
> March : move package to GAR
> 
>    Kind of hacking session. Goal is to add to gar as much as possible of 
> existing packages. This will  go through maintainer training on how to 
> use gar, to write and produce howto and tutorials (if needed because 
> Dago already did a lot to create documentation)
> 
> April : Package update
> 
>    Goal is to move to up to date version of as much as possible of 
> existing packages
> 
> May : Bug hunting
> 
>    Goal is to fix and close as many as possible of bugs and entries in 
> mantis
> 
> June :     Continus integration
> 
>    Goal is to add to continuus integration as much as possible of 
> existing package
> 
> July :      Build world
> 
>    Goal is to setup a procedure that will be used to rebuild every 
> packages from an blank environment.
> 
> August : Summer camp
> 
> September :     Mass porting and package creation
> 
>    Goal is to create as much as possible new packages. This include 
> creating and processing requested package list, etc.
> 
> October :     To be defined
> 
> November :     To be defined
> 
> December :     General meeting !
> 
> 
> Once we will have a frozen theme list and roadmap, this should be of 
> course published on the web site and made publicly available.
> 
> What about the idea ?
> 
> Feedback welcomed !
> 
> cheers
>