[Systers-dev] Questions about Release Management Process

[kanika vats]

Hi Jen,
I will like to be in the Release team.Also,can you tell me what is exactly
expected from a patch maintainer?
Thanks

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a few items in our release management process that need to be
> improved and I'd love some suggestions/ideas how to approach.
>
> - Release Notes -- what is the best way to handle release notes?  Should
> this just be a "readme" file that is included with each release?
>
> - Release Numbering - anyone have any preferences on release numbering?
>
> - Patches for specific features - right now we pull the entire repo - which
> includes all of our modifications to mailman to our dev/prod server.  This
> makes it difficult for others to use the dlist functionality.  We
> originally
> had some patches -- just for dlists -- but those need to be updated and
> doc'd.  Anyone willing to be the dlist patch maintainer?  Essentially this
> would make it easier for someone else to port to newer (or older versions)
> of mailman and start working against MM 3 -- which has just had a new alpha
> release.
>
> - Commit access to the development branch and cli access to our test
> server.
>  I'm of the opinion that the more people who know how to do things -- the
> better.  The flipside is security, of course.  Anyone have any suggestions
> on how to balance the two?
>
> - Testing cycles -- how to get more people involved.  Any suggestions?
>
> -  Release team -- I'd like to put together an actual release-team that
> maybe rotates the release-manger job.  Anyone interested?
>
> Thanks,
> Jen
>
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Best Regards
Kanika Vats