On 17/01/20 2:32 am, Brandon Invergo wrote: > We have started to recognize people as having release-upload rights, even if > they aren't formal maintainers (this is really fairly recent and so far has > been > handled on a case-by-case basis). Siddhesh, if this applies to you in your > current role, please get in touch at maintain...@gnu.org (ideally CC'ing one > or > more maintainers who can confirm).
I believe I am part of that team since I have been able to sign, upload and announce releases for glibc for a while. > "Upload rights" isn't much of a title, though, so I would be interested to > hear > more about what a release manager does (although Mark gives some hints and I > think I can make a reasonable guess from the name). It's something that could > be > formalized / officially recognized if it's generalizable to other packages. In glibc this is what a release manager does: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release Siddhesh
