José Matos wrote: > Hi all, > while preparing the release of 1.5.0 one of the important tasks in my > TODO > list was to find a a release manager to the stable series of 1.5.x releases. > After the discussion that happened here in this list a couple of months ago > (propably November/December last year). The name that came from the > discussion was Jürgen Sptizmüller. Jürgen has been an important contributor > to the last stable series as the svn repository and the email archives can > confirm. :-)
I also saw his patches all over the place. Isn't Jürgen also a longterm contributor to LyX? > > This week I sent a private message to Jürgen (CC'ed to Jean-Marc) > asking if > he would accepted that role. After an exchange of messages Jürgen accepted > the job. :-) Congratulation Jürgen, and thank you for taking the burden. This is a good choice, after my last discussion about including the listings inset (he was against it) I think he has shown to be 'conservative' enough to become a release manager. ;) > > The timing for this issue is due to the imminent (and eminent I hope > ;-) ) > release of the first release of 1.5.0. Some of the decisions that we are (and > sometimes I am) taking now are not only an issue for 1.5.0 but will affect > all the stable series so I think it is only fair for the stable release > manager to have a word to say on the decisions that are made. > > As usual being the release manager does not excuse us from giving a > contribution to make the 1.5.x release the best ever. -- Peter Kümmel
