StAC 090115 Minutes

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Agenda

• The 2009 program plan allocates a budget for the EMO to use towards the theme of “ensuring a great release train” based on advice and prioritization of the StAC (i.e., the three councils).
• Based on the StAC’s feedback and suggestions, we can fund efforts to help with Galileo, or if timing does not support priorities we can start looking to the 2010 release train. Purely hypothetical examples to show the things we could do include fund a usability study, work on cross project testing, etc.
• Purpose of this call is to lay the groundwork to start considering efforts and prioritizations and to schedule a follow up call for the week of January 26th.
• Discussion can base on the StAC 081028 Minutes SWOT analysis of the release train.

Minutes

• Please do not edit during call! CURRENTLY DRAFT JUST POSTED TO SAVE TEMPORARILY

• Attendees
  • Pat H
  • Paul C
  • Dave Carver
  • Rich G
  • Boris B
  • Mik Kersten
  • David Williams

• Next call - Thur Jan 29 (?)
• Pat - Is this a one-time shot?
  • Hopefully not.

• Mik
  • User Experience, Packages, Base on download stats.
  • Cycles towards download page -- making it clear
  • Splash screens for each download package
  • More first class distributions instead of
  • Lining up downloads with marketing of the downloads
• Continuous testing infrastructure
  • Eclipse SDK has some continuous testing
  • Continuous testing server for packages

• Boris
  • Do things community/foundation not good at
  • Professional videos showing out-of-the-box
    • High production video for each distro, outlining what it is
  • Usability study ->

• David Williams
  • Don't spend money on listing problems, cause then not necessarily resources to do anything with it.
  • (Group) - could help with next release though