Dear Debian:
I hereby appoint the following as members of the Debian Release Team:
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)
- Adam D. Barratt (adsb)
- Julien Cristau (jcristau)
- Cyril Brulebois (kibi)
- Ivo De Decker (ivodd)
- Jonathan Wiltshire (jmw)
- Paul Gevers (elbrus)
- Graham Inggs (ginngs)
This represents the addition of Graham Inggs and the retirement of:
* Andreas Barth <aba>
* Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <faw>
* Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi>
* Niels Thykier <nthykier>
* Philipp Kern <pkern>
I'd like to thank everyone for your service.
Any previous Release Team delegation not explicitly listed above is
revoked. The delegation is not time-limited; it will be effective
until further changes by present or future Project Leaders.
Task Description
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The Release Team oversees and manages the releases of the testing,
stable, and oldstable distributions (aka suites).
* Release Team members decide on the release schedule (e.g. freeze
dates, release dates for stable and point releases for stable
and oldstable).
* Release Team members define the content of the suites listed above,
that is:
- They define the packages that are part of those suites. Generally,
that is achieved by deciding:
- Which issues are release-critical (RC) (ie. making the affected
packages not suitable for stable releases) usually by setting
the corresponding bug's severity to serious, grave or critical.
- Which package modifications (eg. bug fixes) are suitable for
inclusion in those suites.
- When and how updated packages migrate between suites. When
necessary, they may temporarily forbid specific uploads to
unstable in order to facilitate transitions.
- They define the architectures (ports) that are part of those
suites by deciding which issues are severe enough to prevent a
given port from being part of a stable release.
* Release Team members decide on the codenames for stable releases.
* Release Team members coordinate the work on the release notes and
have the final say on their content.
* Release Team members have the final say on the official material
for each release such as deciding which CD images are "official"
ones.
Appendix
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You can learn more about the activities and responsibilities of the
Release Team here:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam
--Sam
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