On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:26 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Frédéric Chapoton <fchapot...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> We have currently 115 such positive-reviewed tickets waiting for inclusion, > > Maybe the release manager could use some assistance? Or we could > rotate to more release managers like we used to do for many years...
Two things that would be helpful and more like "most" open source projects (quotes because I have no data to back this up, but from experience): a) Have a normal "bleeding edge" master branch into which all accepted changes are immediately merged--no waiting (for developers) to get a development "release" before getting new changes in. b) More people who can merge into master--while it makes sense to have one "release manager" responsible for keeping a schedule and ensuring stability of the release (including occasionally putting on hold big changes that might hold up a release), it also makes sense to have multiple delegates of approving and merging changes in different areas of the code, helping to set priorities, and triaging. This can be entrusted to multiple people with the help of guidelines to make sure they check all the right boxes when approving a change. For example: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/development/workflow/maintainer_workflow.html . CPython has a similar document I've seen before, but I can't find it at the moment, as do many other large projects. I believe Sage might too... >> see >> >> https://trac.sagemath.org/query?status=positive_review&milestone=!sage-duplicate%2Finvalid%2Fwontfix&group=milestone&col=id&col=summary&col=type&col=component&col=changetime&col=author&col=reviewer&col=dependencies&report=40&desc=1&order=changetime >> >> >> Le jeudi 7 décembre 2017 15:39:07 UTC+1, Friedrich Wiemer a écrit : >>> >>> The ticket #23931 has a positive review for quite some time and I'm not >>> aware of any changes left for it, so my humble question is: Is there a >>> reason this ticket isn't merged yet? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
