Hello, There are some new enhancements to the PowerTOP project coming, so it's time to take a moment and send out an update. The project has seen a steady increase in activity, and as such this is a good time to get things kicked off. UPDATES: Community Meetings - There are plans to attempt community meetings over IRC or GOOGLE+ hangout shortly after each release. The point of the meeting is to communicate about what matters to the community for the next release. In this meeting members will contribute to what is added to PowerTOP's TODO list, discuss what PowerTOP needs for the next release. The first meeting attempt will be held the second week of September. A notice and more details will be sent in a separate email to discuss and finalize. Releases - Back in May PowerTOP v2.0 was released, and three months later in August a minor release of v2.1 was completed. There is an intent to execute a minor release every 3 months going forward. See schedule below. Email List - The PowerTOP project at this time uses the mailing list for all communications. Starting ASAP it would be appreciated if all members use categorize subject headings, as it is important to title your mail for organization. Example: [Patch] - used to signify a patch or patch set [Feature Request] - used to request a feature [Bug] - used to report a Bug [RFC] - used to request comments from the community on a patches or ideas [Announcement] - used by maintainers to send announcements This way the content of messages can be tracked more accurately. Non-Intel Hardware - There has been some great additions to PowerTOP as of late. Mostly work on getting ARM more enabled. This is fantastic, and appreciated. But as a note, the current maintainers don't spend much time working on non Intel Architecture for obvious reasons. BUT we (the maintainers) are happy to accept work to enable non Intel Architectures, and in fact encourage it. That said, members can also expect that maintainers will not be doing a lot of testing or triage on areas not evolving Intel Architecture. With that said, there will be some scouting of participating members to possibly be trusted reviewers to help out here. More about this below. Roles - The PowerTOP project is growing, and we have some interesting ambitions on PowerTOP's future. As needed rolls will be added and scouting for prospective active members to fill those roles will also happen as needed. As needs increase, so will the roles when it becomes applicable. One of the roles we would like to start with is "Trusted Reviewer". Please also note that roles are not going to be added without good reason, the intent is not to build a huge hierarchy here. A "Trusted Reviewer" is someone who maintainers trust to sign-off on patches. For instance we will be scouting for someone to be a "Trusted Reviewer" for ARM-specific patches. This person will be someone who works and has experience with ARM architecture, and has been a solid contributor to PowerTOP. "Trusted Reviewers" will not have commit rights at this time, but patches will accepted or denied based on a "Trusted Reviewers" comments. I'm hoping that this will help increase the quality of code accepted while shortening the time it takes to review and accept submissions. With that explained, Sergey Senozhatsky has been named one of the first Trusted Reviewers of PowerTOP. His high quality code, consistent communication, and efforts towards PowerTOP has earned him trust with the maintainers. Current Roles - The current roles and persons are; Project Owner / Maintainer - Arjan Van de ven Maintainer - Chris Ferron Transifex Project Owner - Margie Foster General Trusted Reviewer - Sergey Senozhatsky Arm Trusted Reviewer - TBD Tentative Schedule - Here is the tentative schedule for the next nine months. Nov 1st (string freeze) Nov 15th (release v2.2) Nov 22nd (community meeting about v2.3) Feb 1st (string freeze) Feb 15th (release v2.3) Feb 22nd (community meeting about v2.4) May 1st (string freeze) May 16th (release v2.5) May 23nd (community meeting about v2.6) Cheers, Chris