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Re: Looking for a glibc 2.18 release manager...
On 30/01/13 00:54, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 01:34 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:15:37 -0500
>>
>>> On Monday 28 January 2013 00:12:03 David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com>
>>>> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:16:00 -0500
>>>>
>>>>> Do we have any volunteers interested in being
>>>>> the 2.18 release manager?
>>>>
>>>> What the heck, I'll do it again.
>>>
>>> careful, that kind of enthusiasm leads to burn out ;). i'm surprised Carlos
>>> isn't on fire already ...
>>
>> This is like visiting a foreign country for the first time, where you
>> make all the mistakes.
>>
>> You have to go the second time so that you can at least make use of
>> that knowledge.
>>
>> Once you know the flow of things it's almost robotic mindless work.
>
> Dave, Allan,
>
> I'm going to suggest something we've never done before.
>
> Dave, you're the 2.18 release manager. Many thanks for volunteering.
> Fully agree about the do it twice thing. You'll notice that most
> of us volunteer twice :-)
>
> Allan, If you accept I'd like you to be the 2.19 release manager.
>
> The goal here would be that you shadow the 2.18 release, ask
> any questions if something doesn't make sense, and then you're
> on deck once 2.18 is out the door.
>
> The release process is documented here:
> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release
>
OK. That sounds fine to me.
Allan