I like the idea, but I suggest to do it in a different way: Why not to have volunteers who are already mentoring different podlings with different sizes of both number of people and the size of code base, these mentors then volunteer:
1- Update the release process docs 2- Report their their experience Which is exactly what you said but the only change IMO is about who should volunteer On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > The Incubator ships about half a dozen releases each month on average, > but our release process is notoriously lengthy, fraught with problems, > and badly documented. If this was any other project, we'd have had a > well-oiled release process in place already years ago. > > Much of our extra release overhead can of course be attributed to the > high release manager turnaround (ideally nobody would make more than > one or at most a few incubating releases) and the different > requirements (source layout, build process, packaging style, > distribution channels, etc.) of different podlings. However, there's > much that we could do that so far hasn't been done or has been > sidetracked. For example, our current release guide [1] is the result > of quite a bit of work, but without a clear vision accompanied with a > process of incremental improvements it's become a mess that few people > read, let alone understand. > > I'd like to start fixing this by forming a "release task force" of a > handful of volunteers who are ready to invest an hour or two per week > to work on a) helping podlings get their releases out, b) migrating > /dist/incubator to svnpubsub by the end of this year as requested by > infra, c) improving related documentation, and d) proposing updates to > the Incubator release policy if needed to streamline the process. In > concrete terms I'd like the task force to 1) be the first port of call > for podlings who're failing to get enough +1s from their mentors and > 2) to contribute a short updates (one sentence to one paragraph) on > their progress for inclusion in the monthly Incubator board reports. > > Anyone interested? > > [1] http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
