(apologies for the none-theading of this; I wasn't subscribed to wikitech-l with this address when this message/thread was sent)
<quote name="Mark A. Hershberger" date="2013-02-19" time="23:09:18"> > On Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:39:25 PM EST, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >> My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and > >> what > >> can we expect of the person who has that role? > > > > I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of > > MediaWiki's release manager so he will have to answer this. :-) > > This subject has come up a couple of times in the past week so I look > forward to working with Greg to implement some policy around MediaWiki > releases -- especially the point releases for 1.19, the LTS release. > There is a lot to discuss and I look forward to those conversations. Hello! To make this explicit: Everyone: please do feel free to contact me (email or on IRC, I'm greg-g) with any ideas, concerns, breakthroughs, gotchas, whatever dealing with this topic. I might not be able to do anything about it now, and I might not be the right person to deal with it in all cases, but I can help route things and keep notes so that we don't lose track of good ideas. Generally, what can you expect from me in this new role? I hope the email robla sent announcing my position can clarify much of it: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-February/066672.html Quoting robla: > Greg will be managing the deployment process for the Wikimedia > websites, focusing at first on improving release notes and outbound > communication, freeing up folks like Sam to focus the engineering > aspects of the role. He'll help our Bug Wrangler (Andre) figure out > how to deal with high priority deployment-related issues; Andre will > continue to broadly manage the flow of all bugs, while Greg will > narrowly focus on very high priority issues through fix deployment. > He'll also take over coordination of our deployment calendar[1], and > will likely be a little nosier than many of us have had the time to > do. Over time, Greg will look more holistically at our deployment > practice, and potentially lead a change over to a more continuous > deployment model. Best, Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | [[User:Greg G (WMF)]] A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
