[Gluster-Maintainers] Release manager for GlusterFS 3.9 needed

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 04:10:20PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> hi,
>        maintaining a release by single person does take a lot of time away
> from development. Is it okay if two people maintain the release? If yes,
> Aravinda and I would like to volunteer.

Sure, sound good to me. For 3.8 Jiffin assisted with it, and that really
helps :-)

Thanks,
Niels

> 
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all!
> >
> > As GlusterFS 3.8 has been released, we need to start planning the 3.9
> > release. It would be best if someone volunteers for this task so that we
> > stick to the release schedule. 3.9 is planned to be released in three
> > months, that would be September this year. With this release cycle the
> > 3.9+1 release (Long Term Stable) will be in December. It really is
> > important for our community of developers and users that we manage to
> > stick to our plans.
> >
> > The immediate tasks for 3.9 are:
> >
> > - find/appoint/announce a release manager
> > - gather features that developers want to see included
> > - update the 3.9 roadmap [1]
> > - open a glusterfs-3.9.0 tracker bug
> > - attach feature implementation bugs to the tracker
> > - get regular status updates from the developers of 3.9 features
> > - make sure that all features are ready before the end of August
> >
> > These tasks should be relatively simple for any of the current
> > maintainers. I'll be able to assist if needed. During this process, we
> > should work together to document all of the steps so that future
> > releases can follow the same workflow.
> >
> > So, who wants to take this on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Niels
> >
> >
> > 1. https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pranith
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