It is pretty typical that Apache projects have a release manager for each release:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html <http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html> It doesn't have to be the same person every time, though, not even for the same branch. -Flavio > On 17 Aug 2015, at 05:01, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > > BTW. I think it will be great for Apache Kafka to have a 0.8.2 "release > manager" who's role is to cherrypick low-risk bug-fixes into the 0.8.2 > branch and once enough bug fixes happened (or if sufficiently critical > fixes happened) to roll out a new maintenance release (with every 3 month > as a reasonable bugfix release target).
