Hi
all,
here is the
draft E-Mail which I proposed sending to
Eclipse.org-committers,
announcing our new
bugzilla CC abilities. Feedback is welcome, and I
intend finalizing
the draft in our meeting tomorrow.
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Subject: Announcing
the EAC bug component
channels for
discussions and questions:
As you may be aware,
the EAC is staffed by appointed members
representing the
most senior committers in the entire community,
as
well as
representatives from each PMC and strategic member.
You can now leverage
this combined wisdom in the following ways:
- File
a bug against the Eclipse Foundation / Community /
Architecture
Council component. All EAC members will
get notified and answer the bug as
appropriate.
- Put the eclipse.org-architecture-council@xxxxxxxxxxx
E-Mail
address on CC of an existing bug. All EAC
members will get notified
and comment on your bug
as appropriate.
Q: What should
be the scope of discussions initiated with the EAC?
A: Think of it as a
means of "escalation". Any question that you'd
like a mentor's
advice on can be brought to the EAC's attention.
Including questions like "How
do other projects..." - it doesn't even
need to be limited
to technical questions, in our opinion
"architecture"
includes
organizational issues just as much. We especially appreciate
questions, ideas or
suggestions that might be interesting on a broader
In many cases the
EAC may not answer your question directly, but
point you in the
right direction; your bug's log will keep the history
of the
discussion.
Q: How does this relate to
the existing cross-project-issues-dev mailing list and bugzilla
component?
A: We consider the cross-project-isses component as a
tool for
day-to-day work coordinating between projects,
especially those
that are on the release train (Galileo). The EAC bugs can be
more
fundamental, broader in scope, or with a longer time
horizon.
Q: Is this going to
scale?
A: We'll see, it is an experiment for now but
we're very much looking
forward to getting involved in the questions, ideas or
suggestions that
you may have.
