Re: [stellation-res] Back online

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 09:52, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> I finally have my system back online. I had to rebuild everything from the
> ground up but I am now ready to roll again.
> 
> I have a couple of questions.
> 
> It seems that my first priority should be to ensure that we have build,
> install and invocation scripts for Windows in addition to Linux. Does this
> make sense?

Absolutely.


> Do we have a formal plan for getting to the first alpha release with the
> tasks and responsibilities specifically identified? It seems to me that this
> information is embedded in the list archives but is not explicitly visible.
> Ideally there should be a link to the plan from the web site.

No, we've never managed to set up a formal process.


> What is the current status on self-hosting? Is this independent from the
> alpha release?

Self-hosting is pretty much ready to go. There was a fairly complicated
review process by the eclipse.org folks to check the software we were
installing to make sure it didn't open any major holes in the security
of the eclipse.org domain, but we got the last clearance on wednesday.

I'm trying to get things set up on the server, but I've had very little
time to work on it. Personal matters have intervened: my wife is about 7
months pregnant, and she's been showing some signs of premature labor,
so she's on strict bed-rest, and between taking care of her and my
2 year old, I'm pretty well swamped.)

My tentative proposal (which I've been meaning to write up and send out,
but haven't had time) is to start self-hosting as soon as the remaining
critical bugs in bugzilla are fixed; but to limit access to the
self-hosted repository to the committers for the first few weeks, until
we are ready to declare the alpha.

Bugzilla is all set up and ready for us to do the task assignments.
There are milestones set up, so that we can identify which entries
we want to fix for alpha1 and which later; and it's got priorities, etc.

	-Mark

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