change release signature requirements?

While we're on the subject of changing the supported release
process, we could use this opportunity to lower the number of
signatures required for a release.

While we never failed to meet the current requirements eventually,
our release process could be faster if less signatures were required.

My suggestion would be:

ASF guidelines require a minimum of signatures from 3 different people
in total (including the release manager). To this, we could add our
requirement of cross-platform signatures, where at least one signature
must count for a Windows system, and at least one must count for a
Unix-like system. Of course, more than 3 signatures are always welcome.

We could also reserve an option for the RM to decide to publish a
release with 3 signatures for any platforms, based on the RM's
judgement of the situation (e.g. if a patch release only contained
code changes inside #ifdef WIN32, Unix signatures could be skipped).

I believe this change would help us with meeting the new 6 months schedule.

I see *no* need to change our patch backport voting rules, by the way.
Received on 2018-06-24 08:21:17 CEST