First of all, thanks for your tireless RM work over the last few years. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 16:11, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > written a lot of tooling and docs surrounding our release process. > I'd like to give somebody relatively unfamiliar with that environment > a chance to go through the process, to ensure all the required > information is properly recorded. I'm happy to do some handholding as ... > responsiveness to the community, familiarity with the project > guidelines, and the ability and patience to herd cats / push string /
Secondly, as you say, there are two separate parts to the RM role: one is the technical part --- creating tags, signing tarballs, sending release announcement emails --- but the other is the community part --- perhaps most obviously sending the periodical "Shall we roll a release next week?" mails.