[Cosmo] Cosmo release plans this month and Snarf home

[Lisa Dusseault]

Well I guess we're done with the discussion of re-arranging the  
project forums (combining dev lists,etc) and will not change things  
in the short term.  Which leaves two more open discussions.

1.  What is Snarf's home?  I propose that we make it part of Scooby.   
We could keep the name or call it something more like "scooby-oob"  
depending on what the purpose of the download is.   Let's discuss here.

2. Are we going to change the Cosmo 0.3 plan to release a version of  
Cosmo *this month* to align with Scooby 0.1?
  - We are gathering info on the QA impact
  - We are triaging bugs and estimating remaining development work
  --> thus we're working on this and will provide updates to this  
list later

Lisa

On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 2/3/06, Katie Capps Parlante <capps at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Subscribing to two lists might be a deterrent to some users if they
>> think of it as one product. Now, this is maybe where I'm out on a  
>> limb,
>
> agree. my intuition is that one user list for both cosmo and scooby is
> the right choice, and i can see arguments for both combining the dev
> lists and keeping them separate. i think we can probably just keep
> doing what we're already doing there until some real problem crops up.
>
>> the idea that we want to think of this as one coherent system from a
>> user's perspective, and not completely loosely coupled projects that
>> have little relationship to each other beyond using standard  
>> protocols.
>
> yeah! maybe to us developers they are two separate things, and
> certainly to some users, but i think the majority of users, in time,
> will not see the distinction, thinking of the whole thing as "the
> calendar server".
>
> do any of us think of zimbra as a whole bunch of projects? nope. it's
> zimbra. but i'm sure their development community has lots of
> divisions.
>
> when i worked at critical path, we had these gigantic platform
> releases that involved simultaneous releases of a few to a dozen or
> more individual apps and systems, each managed, developed, versioned,
> documented independently inside the engineering organization. did the
> users of the service ever hear about any of that? nope. they just
> heard about the platform release. to them, our service was one big
> unified blob.
>
> i'm pretty sure that's how our users will come to see our stuff.
>
>> But agreed, a cosmo system administrator is a different population.
>> Perhaps with scooby you have two distinct groups, those who want  
>> to host
>> a scooby service and end users of our scooby service.
>
> very likely.
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