On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On 06/23/2015 05:59 PM, sebb wrote: > > The default karma needed for committing to the SVN dist/release/TLP > > areas is membership of the LDAP PMC group. This can be changed to be > > membership of the LDAP committer group if required. > > > > I'm not sure about the current karma needed for Nexus upload, it may > > be either PMC or committer membership. AFAIK this can be changed if > > necessary. > > > > I think it would be useful to allow non-PMC members to act as release > manager. > > This means relaxing some of the existing technical restrictions. > Just be clear, that would mean that any Apache Committer could release any Apache Commons component. Gary > > > > However I think it would too permissive to allow any ASF committer to > act as RM. > > Releases cannot be reverted in the same way as commits, and need a > > greater degree of experience than code/doc fixes. > > > > So I suggest that Commons agrees that membership of the LDAP Commons > > committer group be regarded as sufficient karma for performing RM > > tasks. > > > > [We no longer use the LDAP Commons committer group for controlling > > access to the code itself. > > I think the LDAP committer group is largely redundant. This would give > > it a new role.] > > > > The PMC does not need to involve the board in changes to the committer > group. > > Updates to the LDAP group can be made by a PMC chair. > > Apart from the actual Commons chair there are other chairs on the PMC > > as well as Infra folks, so that should not be an issue once it has > > been decided on the RM. > > > > So it would be a relatively simple process to grant karma to a new RM > > once any necessary technical changes have been made. > > > > Thoughts? > > I think that every committer shall be able to do a release for a commons > component after it has been discussed on the mailinglist. > > Otoh, I think it would be very beneficial if at least one PMC member > provides mentoring for somebody doing his / her first release here, as > the process can be quite complex and frustrating. > > I did survive my first release only because I followed the wonderful > release guide for math, but only few people know about it. > > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
