Hi Stefan,

What know how does one need for this role?

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> On 12 Jul 2018, at 17:32, Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
>> On 10.07.2018 07:42, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> It seems that we have some issues lately regarding scheduling, specifically
>> personal schedules. We (as a project) have expectations of developer
>> availability, and when these expectations are changed or not met then
>> things can get a bit messy.
> 
> Do we (as a project) really have this expectations? For me a community
> project has to deal with the coming and going of developer resources.
> 
> I tried many times to get a 1.21 release schedule set that would have
> avoided my unavailability in June. All of these attempts failed and we
> ended in this situation.
> 
>> Fortunately, we have tools to avoid issues with this.
>> 
>> https://phab.enlightenment.org/calendar/
>> 
>> If anyone is planning to be unavailable for a length of time which could
>> impact the project (e.g., going on vacation/holiday for a week, going on a
>> business trip for several days when a release is pending, ...), please
>> create an event on the calendar for it. The visibility for events can be
>> set to "committers" if anyone is concerned about privacy, and I would not
>> recommend providing excessive detail in the event description; a simple
>> "unavailable" is enough.
> 
> I already have a private and a business calendar I need to keep updated.
> I am not keen to have another one I need to update. My work scope
> changed, my travels have increased and my private time I put into this
> project has also reduced due to personal changes. Even if I would say
> yes here to update such a schedule this with lag behind in just a few
> weeks time from now due to me not updating it.
> 
> On the bright side though I should no longer be the single point failure
> for release stuff after 1.21 is out as I will step down from the release
> manager role. I tried to form a release team for many years so far but
> failed in getting anyone interested. By stepping down I kind of forcing
> this change, hopefully for the better.
> 
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
> 
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