On 1 Dec 2003, at 13:17, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
On 1 Dec 2003, at 11:04, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
It would be nice if we had a volunteer to do the release builds and organise the uploads to Apache and mirror servers. I understand Robert will give help and instructions.
Anyone?
In all projects I know, the reponsibility of the release manager (which could change from release to release, as in HTTPD or remain fixed for a while, as in cocoon) includes "doing the releases", making them available and announcing them.
I think that's a good model because one person doing the entire release management job allows to skip the coordination phases and creates more solid practices (at least, that's been my experience).
i agree that it's a good model.
in recent times two special situations - the need to restrict access to daedelus and the move to mirrored releases - resulted in a number of split releases (whereby the release manager prepares the release and then another volunteer with the required karma and knowledge executes the signing and/or uploading). this is less than ideal (but was IMHO the right thing to do in the circumstances).
the good news is that:
1. now we have minotaur so any committer has the required karma to upload a release
2. the mirroring has bedded down and documentation for the signing process has been created.
so, there no real need to do this any more :)
stefano is absolutely right that the best practice is for the release manager to execute the complete process. i've talked more than one release manager through the upload/signing process and i'm willing to do that again now.
OK. Let's do so then :) Halfway looking forward to it ;)
Oliver
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