On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:00:52PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: >>> Chip >>> >>> Would you please collaborate as to what release manager does. An examples >>> would be nice. >>> >>> Thanks >>> ilya >> >> >> Hi Ilya: >> >> So the short description is 'cat herder' >> >> The real tasks/duties - assuming a feature release: >> >> Act as the release schedule reminder - effectively driving and >> enforcing the dates we agreed to earlier in the release cycle. >> Triage/manage the bugs/new features coming into a feature release, >> ensuring the severity is set appropriately and drawing attention to >> things that get ignored/dropped. >> Calling for votes >> Creating releases (and signing, and getting them uploaded and mirrored) >> Acting as change control when we start locking down a branch for >> release - essentially ensuring that changes after a certain period get >> some minimum level of review and testing, and that we aren't deviating >> from that. Chip has called himself the human gerrit because of this. >> >> >> The point releases are a bit different - there are no new features, >> and you really are trying to focus on bugfixes, so point releases >> should be a bit less work. Experience has shown that most folks aren't >> as happy to fix bugs as to develop new features. So you become much >> more of a 'attention seeker' - or perhaps 'attention driver' is a >> better word. - driving attention to things that need to be fixed. It >> also means spending copious amounts of time in Jira (as you would in a >> feature release, but this is even more pervasive) You essentially have >> to look at bugs reported against newer releases and see if they apply >> - if patches for them are applicable to your release (e.g. if I fix a >> bug for 4.2 - does that bug apply to 4.1? Should the fix be in 4.1.1?) >> etc. >> >> --David >> > > So with David's description (thanks BTW, it's been a loooong $dayjob > week for me already), we have one volunteer in Animesh (and Animesh, > does your offer still stand?). Anyone else want to take a crack at it? > > -chip As a last resort, I can do RM duties for 4.1.x but I would be happy to pass it to someone else. -sebastien
