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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 01, Jeremy Blosser [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> It's March, and that means the Grimoire Lead Vote for the next year is due.
> 
> Please send nominations to the list by  March 8, 09:45 CST.

I didn't really want to start myself, but ok.


I nominate Arwed von Merkatz, the guy who does it now.

I also nominate Eric Sandall, the guy who did it before.

And I nominate George Sherwood, the guy who hasn't done it yet.


> For my part I think this election is very important.  The grimoire by
> necessity sees more active change than any other part of the project, and
> the Grimoire Lead and their policies have day-to-day relevance.
> 
> Topics I would like to see possible candidates discuss:
> 
> - Approach to release cycle.  The project has basically started doing these
>   on our own, but I expect the control to go back to the Grimoire Lead at
>   some point, even if that's just to make sure the current process
>   continues.  There are open policy questions around the current process
>   that need to be addresses as well, including target release cycle
>   timeline, policy and timeline for adding new siupported spells, policy
>   for integrations to stable between releases, etc.
> 
> - Policy and proposal for making sure we do security updates in a timely
>   manner.
> 
> - Plan for getting our documentation current relative to the grimoire.
> 
> - Your expected availability, and how you'll make plans to let things move
>   forward in your absence.
> 
> - Priorities for other kinds of changes in the Grimoire.  Grimoire
>   organization, support for sorcery proposals like moving init functions
>   into the grimoire and the modified spell inheritance plan, automated
>   updates for spells, etc.
> 
> - Possible bugzilla usage changes; this one is probably minor for this kind
>   of discussion but it's on my mind because as I'm filling in doing
>   triaging or whatever I'm finding it's difficult to follow things that are
>   assigned all over the place, half the time to devs that aren't around
>   anymore.  I think sorcery and cauldron have a better approach to this and
>   would like the grimoire to consider adopting the way they do it.

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