On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
> When I was working I gave up some of my freedom to do what I wanted in > exchange for being paid to do what other people told me. > > We all do... > I retired when I had accumulated enough investments that the financial > improvement from the money Sun was paying me no longer outweighed the > benefit of being able to decide for myself what to do with my time. My > 10 a.m. horseback riding lesson this morning will be far higher priority > than OpenOffice debug. > > I do not see being a "Release Manager" as carrying any authority at all > over others. I might need to persuade, suggest, beg, and plead, but I > would not expect to be able to compel, not even to the limited extent I > could when I was a project leader in industry. > > This is not the place for a philosophical debate, let's agree to disagree :) I hope a good release manager / keeper of the release checklist will be found soon. > If the term "Release Manager" is creating an idea of a job something > like being a manager in industry, maybe we need a more realistic term > such as "Keeper of the Release Checklist". > > Patricia
