[cut-team] CUT discussion summary for -project@

[Joey Hess]

In my experience, presenting a mass of open questions to -devel is not
the way to go if you wish to actually accomplish anything.

My plan for CUT has been to:

0. MEME
1. PITCH the basic idea to enough people that it should become
   immediately clear if many people think it is a bad idea.
2. HUDDLE with interested people and figure out enough details for the
   initial stages[1] to be sure we can do something.
3. DESIGN a concrete[2] plan, and present to the project, and make sure
   they don't think that is a bad idea either. Note that the plan is sure
   to evolve both as work on it happens, and due to experience with the
   results. Don't be too invested in the details; do try to start with
   something that can evolve in any of a number of directions as experience is
   gained.
4. GATHER enough interested people to be sure we can implement a first er,
   cut of the plan and to commit to supporting users who use it for some
   reasonable period[1].
5. IMPLEMENT
6. REVIEW
7. REPLAN

Note that the above features rough consensus, working code, and *no polls*.
And er, that's not just my plan for CUT, I've used that plan before. :-)

At the moment, I feel that steps #0, #1 are done, #2 is basically complete,
and so far we have one candidate concrete plan for #3 (by aj), but it
needs to be broadened out and some things like security support are not
filled in yet.

-- 
see shy jo

[1] "initial stages/reasonable period" is annoyingly vague, but it was
    helpfully made concreate by the squeeze freeze -- initial CUT target
    should be the period when squeeze is frozen. If it fails,
    users have an easy upgrade path to stable.
[2] This doesn't mean set in concrete, but it does mean solid and
    detailed enough to fully reason about, and, when implementing it,
    that each step is pretty clear.
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