Re: community decision-making & 8.5

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Joshua D. Drake<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:41 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Joshua D. Drake<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 07:44 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >> On ons, 2009-09-02 at 12:52 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> >> > Isn't "core" supposed to be the release manager?
>> >>
>> >> The core team has historically been the release *maker* and has some
>> >> done management of the final phases of that process.  But I think the
>> >> sentiment is growing that we need more management throughout the entire
>> >> release cycle.
>> >
>> > O.k. so a "release" team. Cool. I am assuming the team would be more
>> > directed toward upcoming major release versus minor releases to past
>> > revisions. We already pretty much have that under control between -core
>> > and -packagers. Yes?
>>
>> +1.
>
> O.k. so the second part of this, is I feel it should contain a majority
> of people who are not already being slammed into the ground by community
> work. E.g; let's get some fresh blood. It is certainly important to have
> a couple of long standing contributors involved but we have some people
> that have cropped up recently (relatively) within our community that
> could probably be overworked a bit more ;)
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> /me pokes Robert Haas and Kevin Grittner

Yeah, I'm game, though I'm hoping not to become the guy who spends all
his time doing release planning, because I like writing code, too.
Hopefully Selena won't mind my mentioning that she sent me a private
email expressing some interest in this area, too.

And /me pokes Brendan Jurd. :-)

...Robert