On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
A final note - AFAIK, the ReleaseTodo http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/ReleaseTodo is for the purpose of helping people do releases - it's not an official release process where every step must be followed... these are only guidelines. There's also no reason why the "release manager" needs to be the one to do all the items like run RAT, etc. That can be done by anyone interested - including other contributors who do not yet have commit privileges.
While I agree that anyone can do these things (run ant package, RAT, etc), I don't think it is good for the RM to think of the Release process merely as guidelines and the RM should follow the release procedure as specified. The release process has been followed for every release since 2.2. A repeatable release process is key to creating reliable releases and instilling confidence in the community as well as making sure the ASF legal requirements are met. We can, of course, modify the process based on group consensus, but short of that, I don't think it is up to the RM's discretion as to what they think is important.
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