Re: stepping back from release duties
Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
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On Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:26:07 Stuart Jarvis wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013 13:19:37 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > I've been doing releases of KDE (SC) for a long time now (way beyond 100 > > individual releases). I think it's time others jumped in here as well. > > > > As that's always hard when the old grumpy guy still sits there, I decided > > to take a step back and have others jump in here. > > Ok, that's cool. Thanks for your work over the many releases... Cheers. > > For major releases, it means that a bit more planning especially for the > > upcoming version is needed. As the work is already well-spread, the main > > thing is that someone needs to step in and coordinate, make sure all the > > individual things happen, and that these individual pieces become a whole > > in the end. > > What is involved, other than getting the release announcement put together? > I'm sure there's plenty else that has to be done, but that's the only bit > I've ever seen. Can you detail what your role involved for, e.g., the last > release? Not much, it's mostly keeping track of releases, and preparing the release notes (on www.kde.org, on the Dot, and sending out emails to kde-press- [email protected] and [email protected]). That's pretty much it. > (By the way, I'm not volunteering to be your successor here - I'll continue > to help with the release announcements as I've always done, but whether I > can commit to other things depends on what they are). > > Also, who is on the release-team mailing list and what is that for? Coordination of releases. :) It's an important list to follow if you're either a module maintainer or have anything to do with releases. We need at least one promo person there. > Just trying to get a sense of how things work now and the best way to > tackle this in future. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.