Today I submitted a few patch sets of master to be backported to 1.19 and 1.20[1,2]. I asked Niklas to review and merge them. He then replied that he thought the "Release manager" should merge them at a convenient time.
Our MediaWiki.org page "Version lifecycle"[3] mentions the role "release manager" twice. There however seems to no longer be anyone who formally has this role.
In my opinion, there could be two people that have it, based on their recent actions: * Mark Hershberger, because he made 1.20 happen. * Chris Steipp, because he backports security fixes and then releases updated point releases that also contain the relevant security fixes he made and approved for master/Wikimedia.
My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch sets I submitted for backporting?
My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role?
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Cheers!
I was quite sure Tim Starling used to be the release (or product) manager for MediaWiki, though I can't recall when that changed.
It doesn't really matter who is the release manager, because what is most important is to know when to release and what to release (and it was thoroughly discussed before).
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < smazeland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Today I submitted a few patch sets of master to be backported to 1.19 and 1.20[1,2]. I asked Niklas to review and merge them. He then replied that he thought the "Release manager" should merge them at a convenient time.
Our MediaWiki.org page "Version lifecycle"[3] mentions the role "release manager" twice. There however seems to no longer be anyone who formally has this role.
In my opinion, there could be two people that have it, based on their recent actions:
- Mark Hershberger, because he made 1.20 happen.
- Chris Steipp, because he backports security fixes and then releases
updated point releases that also contain the relevant security fixes he made and approved for master/Wikimedia.
My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch sets I submitted for backporting?
My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role?
[1]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Cheers!
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazeland@wikimedia.org wrote:
My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch sets I submitted for backporting?
Anybody in MediaWiki core group can. I will finish reviewing them (just started) when I get back from the store.
-Chad
On 02/10/2013 06:12 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote:
Today I submitted a few patch sets of master to be backported to 1.19 and 1.20[1,2]. I asked Niklas to review and merge them. He then replied that he thought the "Release manager" should merge them at a convenient time.
Our MediaWiki.org page "Version lifecycle"[3] mentions the role "release manager" twice. There however seems to no longer be anyone who formally has this role.
In my opinion, there could be two people that have it, based on their recent actions:
- Mark Hershberger, because he made 1.20 happen.
- Chris Steipp, because he backports security fixes and then releases
updated point releases that also contain the relevant security fixes he made and approved for master/Wikimedia.
My immediate question is: Who can and will review and approve the 8 patch sets I submitted for backporting?
My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role?
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/core+branch... [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle
Cheers!
I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of MediaWiki's release manager so he will have to answer this. :-)
On Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:39:25 PM EST, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
My longer term question is: Who is MediaWiki's release manager, and what can we expect of the person who has that role?
I think the answer is now that Greg Grossmeier fills the role of MediaWiki's release manager so he will have to answer this. :-)
This subject has come up a couple of times in the past week so I look forward to working with Greg to implement some policy around MediaWiki releases -- especially the point releases for 1.19, the LTS release. There is a lot to discuss and I look forward to those conversations.
Mark.
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