Re: [Monotone-devel] anyone want to try being release manager?

[Nathaniel J. Smith]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> > A group of volunteers might actually be a good idea :).

Yeah, I wasn't actually sure we'd get any volunteers at all, this
community is awesome :-).

> Yes. Especially for a distributed VCS it seems obvious to have a 
> distributed group of release managers. I'm sure we can manage the 
> communication overheads somehow ;-)

Agreed.  Dilution of workload is good.  Dilution of responsibility is
not.  IMHO there needs to be one person who commits to being
responsible for making sure that somehow, a release happens every 3-4
weeks.  If you're really swamped some week, no problem if you need
to get someone else to do it for you, but the commitment is that you
_will_ make sure you get someone else to do it then...  It isn't
actually much time, it's just making sure it gets done.

> No seriously, though. I don't think these steps can easily be split up. 
> One person should be 'responsible' for that every month. Maybe we can 
> cycle that, but please let us have one person release (at least) one 
> version, the more the better.. i.e. (just as an idea):
>
> Nathaniel Smith:  - 0.32
> Timothy Brownawell: 0.33 - 0.35
> Daniel Carosone: 0.36 - 0.38
> Matthew Gregan: 0.38 - 0.40
> Richard Levitte: 0.41 - 0.43

Hmm, makes sense for projects where there is more involved in
shepherding each release through a freeze, etc., but I suspect that
for monotone the overhead for keeping track of this would be
comparable to the work involved in actually rolling the releases :-).

Do you guys want to, I dunno, talk amongst yourselves and figure out
if one of you wants to be the Grand Poobah Official RM, and the rest
deputies, or something?

> BTW: Is there a plan or some minimum requirements for incrementing to 
> versions 1.xy?

I'll note that this decision is way too big to fall inside the RM's
responsibility/discretion :-), but, the best writeup is probably:
  
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/8344/focus=8395

-- Nathaniel