On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > > A group of volunteers might actually be a good idea :).
Yeah, I wasn't actually sure we'd get any volunteers at all, this community is awesome :-). > Yes. Especially for a distributed VCS it seems obvious to have a > distributed group of release managers. I'm sure we can manage the > communication overheads somehow ;-) Agreed. Dilution of workload is good. Dilution of responsibility is not. IMHO there needs to be one person who commits to being responsible for making sure that somehow, a release happens every 3-4 weeks. If you're really swamped some week, no problem if you need to get someone else to do it for you, but the commitment is that you _will_ make sure you get someone else to do it then... It isn't actually much time, it's just making sure it gets done. > No seriously, though. I don't think these steps can easily be split up. > One person should be 'responsible' for that every month. Maybe we can > cycle that, but please let us have one person release (at least) one > version, the more the better.. i.e. (just as an idea): > > Nathaniel Smith: - 0.32 > Timothy Brownawell: 0.33 - 0.35 > Daniel Carosone: 0.36 - 0.38 > Matthew Gregan: 0.38 - 0.40 > Richard Levitte: 0.41 - 0.43 Hmm, makes sense for projects where there is more involved in shepherding each release through a freeze, etc., but I suspect that for monotone the overhead for keeping track of this would be comparable to the work involved in actually rolling the releases :-). Do you guys want to, I dunno, talk amongst yourselves and figure out if one of you wants to be the Grand Poobah Official RM, and the rest deputies, or something? > BTW: Is there a plan or some minimum requirements for incrementing to > versions 1.xy? I'll note that this decision is way too big to fall inside the RM's responsibility/discretion :-), but, the best writeup is probably: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/8344/focus=8395 -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
