Release Manager needed

[Derek Atkins]

My only caveat is:   s/make dist/make distcheck/

But I agree with the rest.

-derek

Quoting Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>:

> Andrew Sackville-West <ajswest at mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:37:17PM -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>
>> [... snip resignation ...]
>>>
>>> This email is simultaneously a call to anyone who feels they can make
>>> the commitment to GnuCash to become involved in the development by
>>> becoming the Release Manager. I wish you well and will be available to
>>> answer any questions you have.
>>
>>
>> what, praytell, does the release manager do?
>
> I see the responsibilities of a release manager as some subset of the
> following:
>
> - package the release for distribution
>
>  - ultimately, run `make dist`
>
>  - report and resolve problems in `make check`.
>
>  - ideally, have a bevy of hardware/distributions/platforms on which to
>    verify the build.
>
>  - upload the build to the release locations
>
> - work with the developers on the release schedule
>
> - track bug activity to have a qualified opinion about the reality of doing a
>  release.
>
>  - be the one person who says "no, we need to slip this", if necessary.
>
>  - be able to triage and suggest bug targeting, especially near the release
>    date.
>
> - digest the commit messages/changelog into useful NEWS, Release Notes and
>  Announcements content.
>
>  - this might be helped by actively tracking mailing-list / commit message
>    content in the interval.
>
>
> At the core, one could just run `make dist` and shove it up to the servers
> more or less on the schedule that we all agree to.  The rest is just icing.
>
> --
> ...jsled
> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}
>



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