Will, you are taking RM work yet another step in to our future, good work. I of course hope the next RM will make us almost forget your achievements as you are making us work to remember your predecessors (building on their work of course).
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Haha, ya I am hearing crickets... :) > > We are slowly working towards systems which will remove a lot of the day to > day work for the RM and will spread that work over the community better. > Things like managing the status of the PRs and what is needed for them to > move forward and testing to make sure PRs are not going to break anything. > A lot of the tools we have not make things much easier, now we just need to > get the repo moved so we can start using labels. > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > Hi Will, > > > > Staying awfully silent in this thread. > > > > > Op 3 mei 2016 om 0:43 schreef Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > As you all know, I am the RM for the 4.9 release. Unfortunately, this > is > > > not a position I will be able to maintain for the long term, so we > should > > > start this discussion sooner rather than later. > > > > > > I am actively working to simplify the RM role by working towards the > > > following goals: > > > - Get the cloudstack repo moved to the 'apache-cloudstack' github org > so > > we > > > can use labels, etc so the community can better organize itself > regarding > > > the status of different PRs > > > > Good, cool! Looking forward to that. > > > > > - Make it easier to setup distributed CI environments so the RM is not > > > responsible for all the CI. > > > - Build tooling to simplify contributing back the results of CI runs. > > > - Improve our set of 'standard tests' to be more complete yet still > > > manageable to be run on every PR. > > > > > > I will continue to work towards lowering the bar for the RM, but we > need > > to > > > start the conversation of who is next in line as the RM. :) > > > > > > > I will not volunteer since I can't promise that I can dedicate the time > it > > takes to be a RM. Running a company and trying to be RM is something I > > can't combine. > > > > Wido > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Will > > > -- Daan
