My only caveat is: s/make dist/make distcheck/ But I agree with the rest.
-derek Quoting Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:37:17PM -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: >>> Hi all, >> >> [... snip resignation ...] >>> >>> This email is simultaneously a call to anyone who feels they can make >>> the commitment to GnuCash to become involved in the development by >>> becoming the Release Manager. I wish you well and will be available to >>> answer any questions you have. >> >> >> what, praytell, does the release manager do? > > I see the responsibilities of a release manager as some subset of the > following: > > - package the release for distribution > > - ultimately, run `make dist` > > - report and resolve problems in `make check`. > > - ideally, have a bevy of hardware/distributions/platforms on which to > verify the build. > > - upload the build to the release locations > > - work with the developers on the release schedule > > - track bug activity to have a qualified opinion about the reality of doing a > release. > > - be the one person who says "no, we need to slip this", if necessary. > > - be able to triage and suggest bug targeting, especially near the release > date. > > - digest the commit messages/changelog into useful NEWS, Release Notes and > Announcements content. > > - this might be helped by actively tracking mailing-list / commit message > content in the interval. > > > At the core, one could just run `make dist` and shove it up to the servers > more or less on the schedule that we all agree to. The rest is just icing. > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
