Re: [ jEdit-devel ] release owners of 4.5.x and 4.4.x

[Matthieu C. <cho...@gm...>]

No objection for me.

Matthieu

2011/11/20 Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...>

> Hello fellow devs.
>
> I realize I have been filling in certain roles without announcing that
> they were things I felt responsible for...
>
> I volunteer to continue being "release owner" of 4.5.x, as I was for 4.4.x
> up to the time that 4.5.x was branched.
>
> What is a release owner?
>
> http://producingoss.com/en/stabilizing-a-release.html#release-owner
>
> If you want to "own" 4.4.x, that means you have to use/test it and each
> rev you merge.
>
> I decided to stop using/testing/maintaining the 4.4.x branch. Which means
> any 4.4.x merge requests that are posted to the merge request tracker need
> to be handled by someone else. If you want to be the release owner of
> 4.4.x, and be responsible for doing the future merges and bringing a future
> release of 4.4.x, let me know. If you want to volunteer and need help doing
> your first couple, let me know and I can help.
>
> Also, I have occasionally broken some of the rules in the
> release-procedure.txt with regards to changes in the non-trunk branch. My
> changes have usually been quite small, things that are already in trunk,
> and things I wanted to "slide into the release" before I vampire does his
> release.
>
> Such rules should only be broken by the "release manager" of that branch,
> I think.
> And they should be done only with great care, to keep consistency with the
> other branches, and never to add new features.
>
> The recent times I broke it was to add tooltips to certain often confused
> menu items or options, for example.
>
> I didn't post a merge request and wait for it to be reviewed, because I
> felt that it was a small change, something i already made to trunk, and it
> didn't really need to be reviewed and approved.
>
> Are there any objections from other devs to me declaring myself "release
> owner" of 4.5.x and continuing to work as I have been?
>
>
>
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