Thanks Bryan! vote += 1
- a On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Mark Slee wrote: > Hi all, > > Wanted to start a quick discussion around Thrift's release process. We have a > consistent amount of general activity on the JIRA and in commits, but we > don't yet have a consistent release process. This is the biggest issue > keeping Thrift from graduating from the Incubator and becoming a full-fledged > Apache project. > > My sense is that most of Thrift's dev community doesn't personally mind > working against trunk or out of git-branches, etc. Our lack of releases seems > to be more a result of prioritization than philosophy. After a bit of > discussion amongst the project committee, an idea that came up was to > nominate a release manager who can be officially in charge of driving regular > releases. The rest of us just need to commit to supporting that role by > being responsive and willing to tolerate the occasional extra task around > release time. In the steady-state it sounds like we'd like to do quarterly > releases. In the short-term, we might like to release more frequently > (monthly or bimonthly) to demonstrate that we can both execute and maintain > this process. > > Bryan Duxbury has volunteered for the release manager role. Given his solid > work and help getting our initial releases done I think this is an ideal fit. > > Before we commit to this plan, wanted to solicit feedback from the dev list. > Are folks on board with this idea? Any alternate ideas? I'm assuming this is > pretty non-controversial and we won't need to do a formal vote, but would > love to get any feedback on this. > > Cheers, > Mark >
