Hi Greg. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the references to Robla's e-mail clarify nothing: It only addresses things outside of the scope of my original questions, since, interpreting the text literally, you will only be responsible for code that is to be deployed on Wikimedia websites, which is always master, never a release branch meant for use by third parties.
For the sake of clarity, I think it may be useful to repeat the original questions from this thread: A. Who can and will review and approve [..] submitted for backporting? (for clarity sake: to branches of supported point releases of MediaWiki, for example MediaWiki 1.19 and MediaWiki 1.20, which are not in use by Wikimedia). I thank Chad for doing that, and I acknowledge that many have the technical right to merge code into these branches, but that's not what I'm asking here. B. Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role? Given the information provided by Rob Lanphier, it's not the Wikimedia Release Manager Greg Grossmeier, as he's responsible for "managing the deployment process for the Wikimedia websites." Siebrand On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > (apologies for the none-theading of this; I wasn't subscribed to > wikitech-l with this address when this message/thread was sent) > > <quote name="Mark A. Hershberger" date="2013-02-19" time="23:09:18"> > > On Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:39:25 PM EST, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > > >> My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and > > >> what > > >> can we expect of the person who has that role? > > > > > > I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of > > > MediaWiki's release manager so he will have to answer this. :-) > > > > This subject has come up a couple of times in the past week so I look > > forward to working with Greg to implement some policy around MediaWiki > > releases -- especially the point releases for 1.19, the LTS release. > > There is a lot to discuss and I look forward to those conversations. > > Hello! > > To make this explicit: > > Everyone: please do feel free to contact me (email or on IRC, I'm > greg-g) with any ideas, concerns, breakthroughs, gotchas, whatever > dealing with this topic. I might not be able to do anything about it > now, and I might not be the right person to deal with it in all cases, > but I can help route things and keep notes so that we don't lose track > of good ideas. > > Generally, what can you expect from me in this new role? I hope the > email robla sent announcing my position can clarify much of it: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066672.html > > Quoting robla: > > Greg will be managing the deployment process for the Wikimedia > > websites, focusing at first on improving release notes and outbound > > communication, freeing up folks like Sam to focus the engineering > > aspects of the role. He'll help our Bug Wrangler (Andre) figure out > > how to deal with high priority deployment-related issues; Andre will > > continue to broadly manage the flow of all bugs, while Greg will > > narrowly focus on very high priority issues through fix deployment. > > He'll also take over coordination of our deployment calendar[1], and > > will likely be a little nosier than many of us have had the time to > > do. Over time, Greg will look more holistically at our deployment > > practice, and potentially lead a change over to a more continuous > > deployment model. > > Best, > > Greg > > -- > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > | [[User:Greg G (WMF)]] A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
