[HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Langille
Hi folks, Let's create a release team. This strategy is one well established in other projects and in industry. For lack of a better starting reference, let me suggest http://www.freebsd.org/releng/charter.html as a starting point for consideration. See also http://www.freebsd.org/releng/in

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let's create a release team. This strategy is one well established > in other projects and in industry. For lack of a better starting > reference, let me suggest http://www.freebsd.org/releng/charter.html > as a starting point for consideration. Se

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Langille
On 9 Dec 2002 at 11:38, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Let's create a release team. This strategy is one well established > > in other projects and in industry. For lack of a better starting > > reference, let me suggest http://www.freebsd.org/releng/charter.htm

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Dan, It's been mentioned a few times on the Advocacy and Marketing list that we should put together a process for ensuring that all the parts necessary for a release occur properly and smoothly. *** Source code - Initial packaging of the new releases' source code Docs - Confir

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the process documented? Any set procedure? Who knows how to do > it? Er ... nope, nope, the core bunch ... > Is 'core' the same as 'steering'? Yes, the webpage takes some license here. 'core' is the most common terminology for the-usual-suspect

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > as a result of their individual contributions). So ISTM such a > reorganization would leave the core committee as a figurehead and make > the release team into the effective new core. I thought we were already only figureheads? ;-) -- Bruce Momjian|

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Dec 2002 at 0:56, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is the process documented? Any set procedure? Who knows how to do > > it? > > Er ... nope, nope, the core bunch ... Sounds like we need to do a brain dump then. I just happen to have some equipment left

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> --- for example: Marc owns, runs, and pays for the >> postgresql.org servers. > Is the cvs repo mirrored? Anyone running cvsup would have a complete copy of the source CVS, I believe. It would be more troubling to reconstruct the mailing list archive

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Dec 2002 at 9:34, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --- for example: Marc owns, runs, and pays for the > >> postgresql.org servers. > > > Is the cvs repo mirrored? > > Anyone running cvsup would have a complete copy of the source CVS, I > believe. It would

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Lee Kindness
Dan Langille writes: > On 10 Dec 2002 at 9:34, Tom Lane wrote: > > Anyone running cvsup would have a complete copy of the source CVS, I > > believe. It would be more troubling to reconstruct the mailing list > > archives; I'm not sure that those are mirrored anywhere > Do you mean the reposit

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --- for example: Marc owns, runs, and pays for the > >> postgresql.org servers. > > > Is the cvs repo mirrored? > > Anyone running cvsup would have a complete copy of the source CVS, > I believe. It would be mo

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 00:24, Justin Clift wrote: > RPM's & SRPM's > - Co-ordinate with Lamar to have these ready before the general > announcement? As I am merely a volunteer in this, the availability of RPMs is directly impacted by my workload. There are several times during the year t

Re: [HACKERS] Let's create a release team

2002-12-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dan Langille wrote: > > But if you want to try to document the process better, there are some > > details written down already (eg, src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES) and I'm > > sure Marc and Bruce would cooperate in writing down more. > > That's a good start. It looks like a list of things easily forgot