On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 21:07, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 16:11, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > >> written a lot of tooling and docs surrounding our release process. > >> I'd like to give somebody relatively unfamiliar with that environment > >> a chance to go through the process, to ensure all the required > >> information is properly recorded. I'm happy to do some handholding as > > ... > >> responsiveness to the community, familiarity with the project > >> guidelines, and the ability and patience to herd cats / push string / > > > > Secondly, as you say, there are two separate parts to the RM role: one > > is the technical part --- creating tags, signing tarballs, sending > > release announcement emails --- but the other is the community part --- > > perhaps most obviously sending the periodical "Shall we roll a release > > next week?" mails. > > Correct, and there's no inalterable law that dictates that these have > to be the same person. Historically for Subversion they have been, > though, and given the size of our development community, I think it's > a good pattern to maintain. (Although the technical bits can become > increasingly scripted.
And I'll be happy to help with this. Perhaps whoever rolls 1.7.3 can do so in a script(1) session? > )
