[sugar] Release cycle - Goals

Over the last weeks I have been looking at how we can improve our
release cycle. Today will be about defining and implementing goals.

Setting goals for any software project is hard, much less an open source
project.

Marco started the discussion last week at
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-August/007838.html .  He
has also started a wiki page at
http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap/0.84 .

There seem to be as many methods for setting goals as there are
projects.  There is not a best practice.

Some of the variables are:
1.  Size of the project.  Larger project such as eclipse have developed
very formal methods.  Smaller project tend to be more informal.

2. Collaboration vs. Competition.  Projects differ in the attitudes with
which stakeholders regard each other.

3. Commercial vs. Commons.  Project differ with regards to their
interest in commercializing their product. 

4.  Dictator vs. Membership.  Some project such as the kernel do well
with the BD others such as Debian are entirely membership driven.

5. Planned vs. Evolutionary.

1.  Sugar Labs in in the category of small to medium sized.  We have