Sounds good. Please add me to the rotation. I can probable start with tools and plugins. Thanks
Thomas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:14 AM To: dev Subject: Release Managers I'd previously brought up the idea of "Release Masters", and now after the recent highlight of our release process by other Apache project members, I've learned that they are common, and are actually called "Release Managers". Their role, in a nutshell, is to take ownership of a release (either through delegation, or by doing it themselves). It's generally not a glorious job, so it would be great if we could do a bit of a rotation on it: - a rotation for tools, - a rotation for plugins, - a rotation for platforms release. For tools & plugins, the responsibility is a bit better defined I think - they are responsible for going through the steps in the release process. For platform releases, the release manager wouldn't necessarily be responsible for individual platforms, but rather for things like docs, website, dist/, and for poking people. As for a rotation, one thought is to write down the names of those willing in the actual release steps .md files, and then they can plan out how to schedule themselves from there. How does this sound?
