Councils,
First, some good news. 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 [1]). 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.
To start this process, I would like to schedule an initial
call immediately after the Architecture Council call this Thursday January 15th,
on the same bridge. Time would be 9am Pacific, noon eastern, 1700
UTC.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/StAC_090115_Minutes
I realize this is short notice – but I hope that the
timing after the Architecture Call will help. The agenda for the 15th
is to outline some of the constraints and decide how aggressive we want to be
on helping Galileo versus the next release train. We will also schedule a
follow up the week of January 26th where I hope we will be able to
firm a proposal of recommended priorities.
On the wiki you can find details of a SWOT analysis of the
release train that may help guide our decision making: http://wiki.eclipse.org/StAC_081028_Minutes
Finally, I would like to propose we plan a meeting at
EclipseCon from 3pm-5pm on Sunday, March 22nd. The purpose of
this meeting will be related to decisions made for the StAC budget.
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Don
[1] - http://wiki.eclipse.org/StAC
Donald Smith
Director of Ecosystem Development
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
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