Has anyone seen the RM for 0.22 lately ? - milind
On 9/9/11 1:46 PM, "Roy T. Fielding" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Eli Collins wrote: >> The release manager - not the developers - are responsible for and >> have the final say as to what patches get merge to their branch. > >That is simply false. At no time is any individual responsible for >any part of Apache subversion, no matter how obscure the branch. >No RM has the final say on anything other than their own work. >That is, they can choose not to produce a release candidate. >Furthermore, at no time whatsoever does any person "own" the job >of being RM -- there can be five active RMs on a single branch, >each producing release candidates based on what is in subversion >at the particular time that they decide to tag and build. > >> If the RM wants all this work they need to either corral the developers >> to do the merging or do the merging themselves. In short, it's their >> responsibility to get people to invest in the branch. > >That is true of anyone, on or off the PMC -- not just the RM. > >....Roy > >
