[dpl-helpers] draft release team delegation
Neil McGovern
neilm at debian.org
Wed Dec 11 19:03:29 UTC 2013
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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