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From: Dan Langille <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Let's create a release team
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 23:51:07 -0500
Message-ID: <3DF52C6B.13650.1DB5769F@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On 9 Dec 2002 at 11:38, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Dan Langille" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Let's create a release team.  This strategy is one well established
> > in other projects and in industry.  For lack of a better starting
> > reference, let me suggest http://www.freebsd.org/releng/charter.html
> > as a starting point for consideration.  See also
> > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html.  
> 
> > This will also lighten the load on the core team allowing them to
> > focus on development and such.  
> 
> I don't really see any value-added here.  The core committee's only
> routinely-exercised function is to organize releases; separating that
> out would leave core with nothing to do.  

So we already have a release team, but not titled as such.

> Also, to the extent that
> core has any real or perceived authority in the project, I think it
> comes from having control of the release process --- there's surely no
> other reason for people to defer to the core team as a group (as
> opposed to whatever respect might be accorded to individual people as
> a result of their individual contributions).

Is the process documented?  Any set procedure?  Who knows how to do 
it?

> So ISTM such a
> reorganization would leave the core committee as a figurehead and make
> the release team into the effective new core.

Is 'core' the same as 'steering'?  I couldn't find any reference to 
"core committe" or "core team" via google.  At 
http://developer.postgresql.org/bios.php I see the group of people 
referred to as "Steering".  Is their function defined anywhere?

If these things are not documented, they should be.  Where do I 
start?
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

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