On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> It seems that Hyrum is pretty happy with having the burden of wearing
> a de-facto permanent RM hat lifted off his shoulders.
>
> Even though I played the RM flute for 1.7.4, I would prefer not to
> end up in the same de-facto permanent position as an RM.
>
> I think our release process would be more efficient overall if any
> developer could, and would, manage a release when the need to make
> a new release arises.
Agreed. Although having somebody RM repeatedly does give a sense of
stability and expectedness, I think rotating that responsibility is
useful for the project as a whole. And I'm happy to offer
encouragement / advice as needed.
The key here is that *somebody* has to do it: we can't just stand
around staring at each other while we go six months between patch
releases. It's that scenario that originally motivated me to start
RM'ing, and one I hope we can avoid in the future.
> What I'd like to do next is clean up the release.py script to the
> point where any developer can make a release simply by following the
> docs in HACKING and running the release.py script on people.apache.org.
> To some degree this is already possible, but the script implements an
> old process and needs some updates for a smoother RM experience.
Thanks! That was the point of the exercise, and I'm glad to hear the
initial experience wasn't too bad.
> Of course, some amount of pilot intelligence will always remain necessary.
> So being RM always takes a little bit of time away from other things.
> But I found that there is surprisingly little to do, even with the
> current release.py script that has some rough edges.
>
> If we ever issue another 1.6.x release the process will also differ slightly.
> Optimising the release.py script for 1.6.x releases is probably not worth
> the effort.
>
> What I want to suggest is that I will *not* manage the next release,
> and that Hyrum will not manage the next release either. But that someone
> else will manage the next release, armed with an improved release.py script
> and with on-demand support from myself and, if available, from Hyrum.
>
> Any volunteers?
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Received on 2012-03-09 14:50:46 CET