> On Mar 31, 2026, at 10:45 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 8:00 AM Austin Bennett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, I didn't even think about permissions.
>>
>> Since I am not a committer here, I can't merge stuff, doesn't look like can
>> run ci, etc. So, can't even do much with dependabot, etc.
>>
>>
> Oh, sorry about that. Since you had an apache.org address I assumed you
> volunteered because you would have some other permissions that I didn't
> know about, perhaps via the Incubator PMC or something.
>
> So I can do the release, no problem. It's supposed to rotate around the
> PPMC members anyway. This is a requirement in the incubation process.
>
>
>> Since I haven't done much for the community, I can understand why I don't
>> have that ability [ ex: committer ]. But, that puts me in a not great
>> place to actually get things done, as otherwise seems like alot of friction
>> :-/ to ask people to perform basic actions around things like version
>> bumps, pinning dependencies, basic repo hygeine . Not sure how to
>> resolve(?), so I guess I can find other opportunities for contributing more
>> easily.
>>
>> Yes, def requires PMC for keys/signing.
>>
>>
> For sure. The release process is quite bureaucratic compared to everything
> else. For a good reason, of course.
For your next release please give the new Apache Trusted Releases process a try.
https://release-test.apache.org/#project-otava
I’m managing this development and have tested with the last Otava release. We
are getting close to a Beta release.
Best,
Dave
>
> I would say there's no reason to let this be demotivating. After a year+ of
> upgrading python versions, writing out dependencies, etc... We are finally
> in a position where it is possible for new (and not so new) contirbutors to
> work on meaningful tasks.
>
> henrik
>
>
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