On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 8:00 AM Austin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I didn't even think about permissions. > > Since I am not a committer here, I can't merge stuff, doesn't look like can > run ci, etc. So, can't even do much with dependabot, etc. > > Oh, sorry about that. Since you had an apache.org address I assumed you volunteered because you would have some other permissions that I didn't know about, perhaps via the Incubator PMC or something. So I can do the release, no problem. It's supposed to rotate around the PPMC members anyway. This is a requirement in the incubation process. > Since I haven't done much for the community, I can understand why I don't > have that ability [ ex: committer ]. But, that puts me in a not great > place to actually get things done, as otherwise seems like alot of friction > :-/ to ask people to perform basic actions around things like version > bumps, pinning dependencies, basic repo hygeine . Not sure how to > resolve(?), so I guess I can find other opportunities for contributing more > easily. > > Yes, def requires PMC for keys/signing. > > For sure. The release process is quite bureaucratic compared to everything else. For a good reason, of course. I would say there's no reason to let this be demotivating. After a year+ of upgrading python versions, writing out dependencies, etc... We are finally in a position where it is possible for new (and not so new) contirbutors to work on meaningful tasks. henrik -- *nyrkio.com <http://nyrkio.com/>* ~ *Continuous Benchmarking as a Service* Henrik Ingo, CEO [email protected] LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/heingo +358 40 569 7354 Twitter: twitter.com/h_ingo
