Sorry to hijack, but maybe something to think about next time - but considering the 2 fellows cover the release process quite well already, would it be worth considering a "junior" releaser as a third? Someone to be mentored via pairing that would help encourage either new contributors OR keep existing ones engaged?
On Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 23:42:21 UTC+10 charettes wrote: > I'm also +1 > > Le mercredi 21 juillet 2021 à 17:21:03 UTC-4, Adam Johnson a écrit : > >> +1 I’m in favour of giving Florian the access and necessary training, >> should he want it. >> >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 10:18, Carlton Gibson <carlton...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Technical Board. >>> >>> Mariusz is working on updating the Organisation docs to reflect the DEP >>> 10 governance changes. >>> >>> https://github.com/django/django/pull/14670 >>> >>> Whilst looking at that we realise that we're short an active official >>> Releaser. >>> >>> > The technical board select Releasers as necessary to maintain their >>> number >>> > at a minimum of three, in order to spread the workload and avoid >>> over-burdening >>> > or burning out any individual Releaser. There is no upper limit to the >>> number >>> > of Releasers. >>> >>> Likely a third-releaser is not needed, with Mariusz and I alternating, >>> and covering each other, but it's a backup — we should have a third active >>> person in the role. >>> >>> James Bennet has served as the third releaser since the DEP 10 changes, >>> but hasn't been active in the last period. Whether he wishes to continue or >>> step-back, I don't feel it's in line with the spirit of the above paragraph >>> to have the responsibility fall on James alone at the current time. >>> >>> The three most plausible candidates for releaser are James Bennet, Tim >>> Graham, and Florian Apolloner. Of these Florian is currently most active, >>> and in most regular communication with us. >>> >>> As such, I would like to nominate Florian as a new Releaser, and ask the >>> TB to discuss/vote on that in accordance with DEP 10. >>> >>> (I didn't discuss this with him but, I hope that's OK with you Florian?) >>> >>> As I say, it's unlikely to be needed, but came up in reviewing Mariusz >>> changes. >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> >>> Carlton >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3c78de95-2d7d-4976-a64e-daf07acc1689n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/3c78de95-2d7d-4976-a64e-daf07acc1689n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/18f83227-9487-4b77-9ab4-484a1d6a3711n%40googlegroups.com.
