This post[1] to rel-eng@ will also be of interest to folks working on infrastructure and applications in Fedora.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:22:48PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:

One of Matthew Miller's goals for Fedora is to diversify our release deliverables. This is one reason the Fedora Engineering team is bringing on a full-time person soon to work on release tools. We want to contribute to the Fedora release engineering effort too (as opposed to simply asking existing folks to do more). :-)

I would expect over the first month or two in that role, our release tools person will likely be:

• looking at the field of deliverables needed, across not just the products but also at containers and Project Atomic needs

• getting familiar with any current release processes as needed

• discussion with stakeholders in the project, including rel-eng, mattdm, infrastructure, and others, on this list and elsewhere about requirements

During this time, I'd expect there will be some decisions on process, architecture, etc. To kickstart development, I'd like to set up a FAD where key community members, including developers and release engineers, can start (or continue) working on actual code and supporting infrastructure.

I started a wiki page here for interested people to sign up: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Release_Tools_and_Infrastructure_2015

There are some proposed dates listed on the wiki page. None have been fully decided yet. I have preliminary approval from the FPL, and I'm awaiting OSAS input on budget availability, and any time restrictions from their POV. There is a good chance we will do this at the Red Hat Tower (HQ) in Raleigh, NC USA. The event will not be restricted to USA people, although we'll have to select a roster of people to meet goals.

There's a specific section in the page for you to write your name and any restrictions on dates. This will help us make the best date/location plan. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Release_Tools_and_Infrastructure_2015#Pot...

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