[Gluster-Maintainers] Merge rights for release branches

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 01/10/2017 06:25 AM, Shyam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tomorrow's maintainers meeting is on the topic of "Maintainer
> Guidelines", I do not want to derail that discussion, so sending this
> mail ahead of time, to see if there is consensus or if we need to take 5
> minutes on this tomorrow.
>
> Q; Who has merge rights on release branches?

I had the impression that feature owners merged patches on the various 
branches — after the release anyway.

>
> Till now we have maintained that release owners have merge rights on the
> release branches. If we accept this going forward, then I would request
> the infra team to lock down release branches (maybe starting 3.10) to
> allow only the identified release owners to have merge rights.
>
> Further, to not get bottle necked, we would need at least 2 and at most
> 3 release owners for a release branch (again, for LTM at least).
>
> This lock down helps release owners to stay on top of the release
> content, and as release content post release branching (or at least post
> release), only contains bug fixes (see [1] sent by Niels earlier) it
> should not be an overhead for the release owner.

BTW, I guess we should double check that I can tag v3.9.1 when I'm ready.

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Kaleb