[Eg-oversight-board] Release Manager and Outreach Committee reports

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

Sending along the Release Manager and Outreach Committee reports for 
today's meeting. The reports are also available on the agenda.

Release Manager's Report
  * Galen Charlton cut the 2.12 Release Candidate yesterday. The release 
candidate includes 80 documentation and bug-fix commits that have been 
added since the beta release.

* Following a recommendation that came from discussion at the 2016 
hack-a-way, Terran McCanna coordinated a Bug Squashing Week instead of 
our usual Bug Squashing Day. Terran counted 245 individual bug squashing 
actions that occurred during the week. There were 21 bug fixes merged 
during the week, and many of the bugs tested during the week have since 
been merged. Scheduling a full week of Bug Squashing after a beta 
release is something I highly recommend for future releases.

* The 2.12.0 full release is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22, provided 
we don't find any showstopper bugs between now and then.

Outreach Committee Report
* The Outreach Committee is busy working on this year's annual report.

* Rogan Hamby has put out a call for Evergreen sites to complete our 
annual community survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YS5RLRG). Please 
make sure somebody from your institution fills out the survey. It is 
critical to providing accurate numbers when we are citing the number of 
Evergreen libraries in our press materials.

* The Outreach Committee is requesting authorization from the Board to 
expend $1,200 for the printing of the annual reports. Last year, we had 
a community volunteer quickly print these reports at the last minute. 
However, the community believes the report should be printed by a 
professional. We have a quote for just under $1,200 to print 300 
saddle-stitched reports on 100# Glossy White paper.

Kathy

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Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
klussier at masslnc.org
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