Thorsten Scherler wrote: > Hi all, Thanks for trying to help in this area. This is related to something that i have been concerned about. I have been the RM for the recent releases. We need other people to also understand and be able to do the process. It was fanstastic that Ferdinand assisted last time.
> I wonder whether we can establish a regular scheduled release with the > help of an official release manager. I don't see how that will help. The release manager starts when the project is almost ready to do a release, but it is not their job to fix the major issues that are hindering our release. You mention "scheduled releases". I recall that we had a big discussion about that topic and whether it was a good approach. Would someone please refer to that thread. > Ideal it would be not one single person but a group of people that take > turns to do a release. That said if you are interested in helping doing > a release as RM, please beware that other trust you to really do it. > > Why having a RM? One thing that I learned over the years in os > development is that people feel more responsible for doing a job when > their have officially the function or feel personal responsible for the > project. Well i felt responsible, but it didn't help our releases to happen any more quickly. > Seeing our release rate we need to build a habit of releasing on a > regular basis. > > Who will volunteer for the group of RM? I will. Like last time, i am very pleased if other people either help, or actually do it and i will do the helping role. I will enhance etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt so that people know what they are in for. -David
