2003-02-12 - Minutes of mozilla.org staff meeting
Gervase Markham
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Present: Mitchell, Marcia, Leaf, Gerv, Asa, Myk, Scott, Blizzard, Dan at
the end.
*New person responsible for maintenance of key website files*
Dawn is now no longer able to give her full time to Mozilla.
There's a list of people who can check into "restricted" files.
This needs to be a list of involved and available people, or those who
might want to make updates.
terry, dmose, shaver to come off
seth, gerv to go on
Gerv to look after the front page on a regular basis
Myk to make the changes to CVS
*Disabling inactive CVS accounts (mstoltz)*
Dawn did some of this recently (but may not have quite finished)
Policy: Disable all those who haven't checked in for six months.
(They can always send email to be reactivated.)
Don't have resources to automate.
We should ask mstoltz to do it if it's important to him
Myk to send mail.
*Remove CVS admin rights from normal users (mstoltz)*
Currently, those with checkin rights can execute the "cvs admin"
command. This gives them more power than is ideal, although it
necessary for some things. Can we remove some of the power?
Changing this requires CVS hacking, so won't get done in the near
future.
Can mstoltz do it himself, or motivate Netscape IC to do it?
*Update calendar partition in despot (Brant Gurganus)*
Leaf/Marcia to deal with it.
*Chimera 0.7 release - status*
We are in a complete mess over the name :-(
Options: iVoyage, Camino, or an interim name.
Idea: they can't land on the trunk until next week; let's see if
Camino makes it through AOL legal.
Asa to go back to Pink. Camino much better than iVoyage.
*cls filed a bug to remove the QT port*
Timeless and gisburn have been hacking on it, but it doesn't pass
smoketests
Removing it is fine with us.
In cls' view, no credible long-term maintainers found. He's the module
owner, so his say goes.
Asa to comment that we support cls as module owner.
*Possible large changes to Gecko or other components*
The hackers concerned need to come to us with a proposal
Brendan/Asa needs to mail all major contributors to find out what big
work they want to do. Get requirements and schedule them.
Can't change the schedule without requirements.
Asa to start that process.
*Review and super-review*
There was a discussion about the role of review and super-review in
current Mozilla development, and whether changes to the process are
appropriate in the light of new circumstances.
Gerv