[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Call for Release Manager nominations - Evergreen 3.3

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

It's now time to decide who will be Release Manager for the spring
2019 release of Evergreen, Evergreen 3.3.

The Release Manager does not have to be a core committer, but does
need to be familiar with Git and have already contributed
substantially to the Evergreen project whether it be code or
documentation.

Nominations (including self-nominations) are due by 11:59 PM EDT on
Friday, 26 October 2018. Nominations should be made by email to
open-ils-***@list.georgialibraries.org with a Cc: to
open-ils-***@list.georgialibraries.org. Replying to all on this
email will also work.

Nominees should send an email to both of the above mailing lists a
statement about their relationship to the Evergreen community and
their goals for the next release. The elected release manager will be
expected to follow the typical schedule for a spring release but
should provide information on when they intend to set specific
milestones such as the beta release.

If more than one candidate is nominated, an election will be held in
the #evergreen IRC channel on freenode.net on 31 October at 15:00 EDT
/ 12:00 PDT.

Everyone is invited to participate in the voting. Evergreen core
committers who cannot make the meeting may submit their vote via email
to the open-ils-dev mailing list.

Regards,

Galen

[Daniel Wells]

Dear Evergreen Community,

After some consideration, I am writing to offer myself as release manager
for 3.3.

Our library is an independent academic installation, and will be live on
Evergreen for 9 years this December. I served as Release Manager most
recently for 3.1, and previously for releases 2.5 and 2.6. In addition to
my RM experience, I have also been part of the Buildmaster team since 2.11.

My general experience in attempting to *plan* releases has not always
turned out, so my goal this time around would be to focus on the
fundamentals of managing a release. I will review what I can, code where I
must, and encourage and cajole as necessary to move the project forward.

As I am seeking a position of at least some small influence, it may also be
worth knowing where my personal interests lie in Evergreen development.
First, we've taken a good first step into modern Angular, but we will need
to remain diligent. Wrapped up with that will also be necessary changes to
our translation infrastructure. Second, though sometimes messy and
unglamorous, we must still make serious attempts to clean up dead and dying
code in our codebase. Some areas there are obvious (XUL), but others tend
to build up unnoticed, and can be very frustrating to discover when trying
to troubleshoot certain bugs.

As far as timeline, I'll keep it simple:

2/20/19 - Feature freeze
2/27/19 - Beta release
3/20/19 - Release Candidate
3/27/19 - Final release

I think the feature freeze / beta separation is a little different than
what we've planned to do in the past, but I also think it is a little more
realistic than saying that the feature freeze date *is* the beta release
date. That tends to make for either a pretty unstable beta, or a late
release of the actual beta, take your pick :)

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Dan

Post by Galen Charlton
Hi,
It's now time to decide who will be Release Manager for the spring
2019 release of Evergreen, Evergreen 3.3.
The Release Manager does not have to be a core committer, but does
need to be familiar with Git and have already contributed
substantially to the Evergreen project whether it be code or
documentation.
Nominations (including self-nominations) are due by 11:59 PM EDT on
Friday, 26 October 2018. Nominations should be made by email to
email will also work.
Nominees should send an email to both of the above mailing lists a
statement about their relationship to the Evergreen community and
their goals for the next release. The elected release manager will be
expected to follow the typical schedule for a spring release but
should provide information on when they intend to set specific
milestones such as the beta release.
If more than one candidate is nominated, an election will be held in
the #evergreen IRC channel on freenode.net on 31 October at 15:00 EDT
/ 12:00 PDT.
Everyone is invited to participate in the voting. Evergreen core
committers who cannot make the meeting may submit their vote via email
to the open-ils-dev mailing list.
Regards,
Galen
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Equinox Open Library Initiative
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