[MACTCL] RE: [TCLCORE] Re: [TCT] Call for maintainers

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> As a busy mac-centric person I'm not that interested in maintaining 
> anything besides the mac code anyway, so I'm not terribly happy with 
> the distribution of mac code among so many functional areas in TIP 
> 16, when it's quite likely that a lot of the maintainers are not 
> going to have a mac with the latest compilers and are not going to be 
> able to build and test the mac sources they are maintaining.

Nothing is ever set in stone.  If somehow the maintenance of areas
along the lines in TIP 16 becomes burdensome for one or more reasons,
we can always adjust them then.

> Is there some concept of platform release managers planned? is there 
> somebody among the maintainers or the TCT who will be responsible for 
> building binary distributions? (I suppose I could volunteer for 
> building the mac distribution if needed)

I'll consider you volunteered then.  I'm the release manager for
8.3/4 (no other versions have yet been planned for enough for a
release manager).  I of course don't have a mac, but nor do I have
as many platforms available to me as it would be nice to have
binaries for.  Part of the RMs responsibility will be to work with
others who have those platforms to get a concerted, correct release
out in a timely manner.

BTW, think 8.3.3 for the short term (like within a month).

Jeff