On Tuesday 20 January 2004 8:57 am, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Steve, > > I went looking to see what vote is pending. Far as I can see, it is a vote > to allow you to be a Release Manager? We vote for releases, but I am not > aware of any requirement (usual or recorded in the Commons Ettiquette docs) > requiring a vote for a Release Manager. The general rule is that anyone > can be a Release Manager, but we vote on the release status. > > --- Noel >
Here's what I was basing this on: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/prepare.html which Robert Burrell Donkin referred me to, in which it is said in the introduction: "This document assumes that a release manager has already been selected by a VOTE, a release plan approved and also that the major (usually coding) tasks in that plan have been completed. It describes some standard jobs which should be done (usually by the release manager) before the final release is ready to be cut. " If this is not necessary, if the informal discussions that have gone on in the past few weeks among the few [net] committers are sufficient license to get on with preparing the release, then the policy ought be changed. If this step is optional, or needlessly involved for a small project like [net] (and I tend to agree) then, fine, I can go ahead and prepare the release. But I guess I'd feel more comfortable if the other committers somehow indicated that they were in agreement that this will be [net]'s process. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
