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!