[Gluster-Maintainers] Merge rights for release branches

[Shyam]

On 01/10/2017 05:10 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> 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.

Ah! got a quick education on this from Kaushal as well. So consider this 
a request to change the same to, "only release owners merge patches to 
the release branch".

If I am not mistaken in my newly gained insight, the shift was during 
3.8. Niels was it a time consuming task them or were there other reasons 
for the shift?

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>> 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
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