Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > Am 19.11.2010 um 18:34 schrieb Philip Brown: >> On 11/19/10, Peter FELECAN <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: >>> ... >>>> So let me share more detail of my experience, and how that benefits my >>>> position of release manager. >>> >>> Well, nobody said that your contribution [as release manager] to the >>> community is not >>> valuable. >> >> Choosing the option of "no human release manager", is saying exactly that. >> (if one presumes that people are choosing that option, with the >> assumption that quality of packages will not suffer as a result) >> >> It would in some ways bother me more, if a majority of maintainers >> voted for "no human release manager", and believed in their hearts, >> "yes, quality of packages WILL suffer, but I dont care, i just want >> life easier for myself" >> If the majority of voting members no longer care about package quality >> as paramount importance, that would be a sign that opencsw has become >> an organization I would no longer wish to be a part of, or even use >> products from. > > Peter, IIRC we agreed on moving to something similar like > http://wiki.opencsw.org/automated-release-process
No. What you refer is "last_edited: 30 Jan 2010" so it predates the summer summit. The agreed on process is that referred in the wave of August 14th under the title "Release process (alternative approaches to a new stable/)" To access the wave, here's the link: https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+0tu9vv7tA > This indeed has no release manager for the first step when the > maintainer can deliver directly to experimental/ (as in the document, > not as we use it ATM), which automatically generates new catalogs > and brave users can install from that. But the migration to > the following repositories unstable/testing/stable (again as in > the document) are done asynchronously by the release manager. > So I think you are suggesting to shift the role of the release > manager slightly, right? If that was not clear until now: I'm suggesting the whole elimination of a human release manager. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
