On 4/29/2011 3:28 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
I know the password for the signing keys. I've just been crazy busy. I
will have some time May 4th.
By the written policies, it appears that any committer is authorized
to unilaterally release an unofficial beta.
I therefore propose that folks should get in whatever they can to the
3.3.x svn branch, and whatever is there on May 4th I will cut for a
beta tarball. Sometime shortly thereafter we can kick off the real
release process.
+1. Hope you did well on your GMATs. This has been my main hold up on
cutting the tarballs. Can we add to this task to get a key for me onto
the signing key?
Regards,
KAM
That isn't up to me. We as a project need to decide upon a signing key
policy. On one hand we need people who are active in the project to be
empowered to do necessary tasks. But OTOH it is dangerous to spread the
key and passphrase to too many people. Witness the drama that exploded
a while back because too many people had root access to
freedesktop.org's servers.
BTW, I haven't seen any voting on 3.3 bugs for quite a while now.
Meanwhile the written policies allows releasing betas at anytime. So we
might be better off just cutting a beta right now instead of waiting.
I'll try to do it this weekend if nobody objects.
Warren
