[Erp5-dev] ERP5 Release System - proposal

[bartek]

Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007 12:03, Łukasz Nowak wrote:
>> What we proposed was semi-release scenario - after reading your email I
>> feel, that you want to provide releases as good as possible - that's
>> great. What driven us for such release process was cutting down costs
>> of releases from Nexedi and put it on community - so it would be more
>> like community driven releases - and it would be stated on release
>> related information. But (if I understood you well) you'd like to
>> Nexedi have full control of release process - then community will be
>> happy (I hope), because releases quality will be much higher.
> 
> No, this is _not_ what I meant. I mentioned that release management should not 
> be independent of development processes, and a few (not only single, but also 
> not too many) highly skilled people should collaborate. I do not care about 
> whether release managers are working for Nexedi or not, as long as they are 

Your are absolutely right. However, as for now all core developers are 
within Nexedi, the development process is coordinated by Nexedi, and 
also Nexedi is in charge of the svn repository. If we choose a 
single-trunk way, as you suggested, and there is to be a feature freeze 
for a week or two, then it has to be managed and coordinated by Nexedi. 
Which is not a bad thing, after all :)

That said, I agree that non-Nexedi people can take part in the process, 
also as members of release management team.

Bartek

> capable of handling the management gracefully, just as the Zope2 maintainer 
> is not working for Zope Corporation, but a leading developer.
> 
> My belief comes from my experience in other projects. If you look at some 
> Linux distributions, such as Debian and Red Hat, the package maintainers, who 
> can be viewed as release managers in a sense, very often developers in the 
> upstream as well, and contribute tremendously. When they don't, sometimes 
> happening in other distributions, no collaboration exists, and their 
> relationship with real developers is extremely bad.
> 
> Also, note that I regard you as a candidate of a release manager. You have 
> been contributing significantly, and you have proven that you have good 
> skills. Naturally, it depends on what you would like to do, but I would feel 
> very good if you would be a member of such release managemet.
> 
>> I didn't know the state of discussion about releases in ERP5 - they
>> weren't publicised for now. So I'm quite happy to read that much about
>> ERP5 development. I hope that current development model of ERP5 is able
>> to accept any release model.
> 
> I am sorry that I hadn't before, but it was only because my idea was still 
> very vague. Perhaps, nearly all people in Nexedi even didn't know that I had 
> been thinking about this for a long time.
> 
> YO


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