[dpl-helpers] draft release team delegation

[Neil McGovern]

Hi Lucas,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 06:57:39PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Please find below a draft delegation for the release team.
> 
> Could you please review it and send feedback (or ACKs) before
> 2013-12-16?
> 

[...]

> Release Team delegation
> =======================
> 
> I hereby appoint the following developers as Release Team members:
> 
> - Adam D. Barratt <adsb>           (release manager)
> - Niels Thykier <nthykier>         (release manager)
> - Philipp Kern <pkern>             (stable release manager)
> - Andreas Barth <aba>              (release assistant)
> - Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <faw> (release assistant)
> - Ivo De Decker <ivodd>            (release assistant)
> - Julien Cristau <jcristau>        (release assistant)
> - Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw>         (release assistant)
> - Cyril Brulebois <kibi>           (release assistant)
> - Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi>             (release assistant)
> 

Similarly to FTP-masters, I would advise not adding in release
assistants, but just delegating release managers as...

> The distinction between release managers, stable release managers and
> release assistants is not relevant in terms of delegated powers, but is in
> terms of internal team organization and decision-making processes.
> 

... this should either be documented in the delegation, or left out. And
if it's documented in the delegation, then there's a issue when the team
want to change how they work internally.

> The Release Team oversees and manages the releases of the testing,
> stable, and oldstable distributions (aka suites).
> 
[...]
> by deciding with issues are release-critical (RC)
*which

It's also missing a few areas:
1) Allowing important severities to be set for release goals, or other
items.
2) Setting the NMU delay policy
3) Defining what consititutes a Debian release beyond the suites - eg:
ability to say that "x is the official Debian Live CD image"

Neil
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