On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 01:00:52PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > > Chip > > > > Would you please collaborate as to what release manager does. An examples > > would be nice. > > > > Thanks > > ilya > > > Hi Ilya: > > So the short description is 'cat herder' > > The real tasks/duties - assuming a feature release: > > Act as the release schedule reminder - effectively driving and > enforcing the dates we agreed to earlier in the release cycle. > Triage/manage the bugs/new features coming into a feature release, > ensuring the severity is set appropriately and drawing attention to > things that get ignored/dropped. > Calling for votes > Creating releases (and signing, and getting them uploaded and mirrored) > Acting as change control when we start locking down a branch for > release - essentially ensuring that changes after a certain period get > some minimum level of review and testing, and that we aren't deviating > from that. Chip has called himself the human gerrit because of this. > > > The point releases are a bit different - there are no new features, > and you really are trying to focus on bugfixes, so point releases > should be a bit less work. Experience has shown that most folks aren't > as happy to fix bugs as to develop new features. So you become much > more of a 'attention seeker' - or perhaps 'attention driver' is a > better word. - driving attention to things that need to be fixed. It > also means spending copious amounts of time in Jira (as you would in a > feature release, but this is even more pervasive) You essentially have > to look at bugs reported against newer releases and see if they apply > - if patches for them are applicable to your release (e.g. if I fix a > bug for 4.2 - does that bug apply to 4.1? Should the fix be in 4.1.1?) > etc. > > --David >
So with David's description (thanks BTW, it's been a loooong $dayjob week for me already), we have one volunteer in Animesh (and Animesh, does your offer still stand?). Anyone else want to take a crack at it? -chip
