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
