On 02/10/2013 06:12 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote: > Today I submitted a few patch sets of master to be backported to 1.19 and > 1.20[1,2]. I asked Niklas to review and merge them. He then replied that he > thought the "Release manager" should merge them at a convenient time. > > Our MediaWiki.org page "Version lifecycle"[3] mentions the role "release > manager" twice. There however seems to no longer be anyone who formally has > this role. > > In my opinion, there could be two people that have it, based on their > recent actions: > * Mark Hershberger, because he made 1.20 happen. > * Chris Steipp, because he backports security fixes and then releases > updated point releases that also contain the relevant security fixes he > made and approved for master/Wikimedia. > > My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch > sets I submitted for backporting? > > My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what > can we expect of the person who has that role? > > [1] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch:REL1_19,n,z > [2] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch:REL1_20,n,z > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle > > Cheers! >
I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of MediaWiki's release manager so he will have to answer this. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
