[Framework-Team] the end is nye

[whit morriss]

Being that primary purpose of the framework team is to review code, some 
short day after December 1 the plone 2.2 framework team becomes 
obsolete.   Or at least enters a time of transition.

being the bootstrap team, we get the honor of deciding what happens next 
and I'm going to make a proposal that should  sound pretty familar.

After December 1, we finish our code review and work with stefan to 
create a loose release plan (strengths, weakness, risks, how will these 
things be accomplished).    This plan becomes our final report.  Then we 
choose a new leader for the framework team (I nominate stefan) who then 
picks the new framework team of people he wants to work with (ie people 
with whom he can easily teleconference).

I think it's important, especially for this first team, to bow out 
quickly into the ranks of the developers. 

1.  having considered the process from the bootstrap stages, we can best 
support it as developers.  After we indoctrinate the new team, there are 
automatically twice as many people invested this process and who can 
explain it to others.


2. we don't want our roles as a framework team member to adversely 
effect the development dynamic. and hopefully, all of us will being 
participating in the release.


3. and, we *really* don't want anyone to get the impression that the 
framework team is responsible for releases or development in the sense 
of cranking out code and fixing bugs.  that's work we do as 
developers.   disolving the 2.2 team immediately prevents any confusion.


4. Picking a new framework gets new people involved in the process at 
what I think is the right time.  Why? because this will be the downtime 
for code review and the best time to impart what we have learned so far. 

It also is the right time to start looking forward to 2.3.


5. It's alway good to purge the old regime.  we want the new team to 
feel free to adapt the process to work f
or them.  

Our pool is deep in talent but not so in numbers, so I imagine some of 
the same faces will appear again as the member of the framework moves 
East and West.   voting members are only a necessity because somebodies 
got to be responsible for making decisions.

-w

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 | david "whit" morriss 
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 | contact :: http://public.xdi.org/=whit 

 "If you don't know where you are,  
  you don't know anything at all"        
                                     
  Dr. Edgar Spencer, Ph.D., 1995     


 "I like to write code like  
 other ppl like to tune their 
 cars or 10kW hifi equipment..."
 
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