On 06/23/2015 05:59 PM, sebb wrote: > The default karma needed for committing to the SVN dist/release/TLP > areas is membership of the LDAP PMC group. This can be changed to be > membership of the LDAP committer group if required. > > I'm not sure about the current karma needed for Nexus upload, it may > be either PMC or committer membership. AFAIK this can be changed if > necessary. > > I think it would be useful to allow non-PMC members to act as release manager. > This means relaxing some of the existing technical restrictions. > > However I think it would too permissive to allow any ASF committer to act as > RM. > Releases cannot be reverted in the same way as commits, and need a > greater degree of experience than code/doc fixes. > > So I suggest that Commons agrees that membership of the LDAP Commons > committer group be regarded as sufficient karma for performing RM > tasks. > > [We no longer use the LDAP Commons committer group for controlling > access to the code itself. > I think the LDAP committer group is largely redundant. This would give > it a new role.] > > The PMC does not need to involve the board in changes to the committer group. > Updates to the LDAP group can be made by a PMC chair. > Apart from the actual Commons chair there are other chairs on the PMC > as well as Infra folks, so that should not be an issue once it has > been decided on the RM. > > So it would be a relatively simple process to grant karma to a new RM > once any necessary technical changes have been made. > > Thoughts?
I think that every committer shall be able to do a release for a commons component after it has been discussed on the mailinglist. Otoh, I think it would be very beneficial if at least one PMC member provides mentoring for somebody doing his / her first release here, as the process can be quite complex and frustrating. I did survive my first release only because I followed the wonderful release guide for math, but only few people know about it. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
