21.05 Call for Release Manager and Release Engineers

[jonringer]

done. Welcome aboard

[sgo]

I’d like to help out as a release engineer with Perl things. Feel free to add me.

[Ma27]

I don’t really have a single field I’m specialized on, though I helped out a bit especially during the last two releases. So feel free to add me as well. Please note that I won’t be able to do anything meaningful until the beginning of April.

[Ma27]

@jonringer @worldofpeace Just out of interest (I probably missed this while skimming through the thread): what’s the plan for RM rotations in the future (and the position of the “second RM”)?

[aanderse]

Let’s see if I can predict two for two… I’m calling it now: @Ma27 for release manager 21.11! I love it

[jonringer]

@Ma27

what’s the plan for RM rotations in the future (and the position of the “second RM”)?

Right now, there’s still no 21.05 secondary RM. Unless I missed someone, sandro was the only one to concretely volunteer. However, there’s been some concern about length of time in the community and a few instances of miscommunication; with time, I think he would make a good RM.

But with the 2 NixOS RFC’s. One delaying the date to make Desktop Managers more managable, and the other doing stabilizaition on master, I think the release workload will be a lot less going into ZHF. Making it a lot easier on the Release Manager, and the release schedule more likely to succeed.

Maybe for the 21.11 release, I can mentor 2 people, and we can have more of a “backup” RM in case someone has some real life issues or other obligations come up, then there’s more resilience in the release process.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the release engineering team. I will be populating 21.05 Blockers · GitHub with work items, and coordinating with the release engineering team to tackle issues as they arise. It would be a lot more sustainable if the RM role was more of a “shepard” with context about the issues, rather than also trying to tackle all of the issues.

[tomberek]

@jonringer , sign me up for backup

[Sandro]

@jonringer

Maybe for the 21.11 release

I can’t promise that I will have a similar amount of time for NixOS in November especially when things get back to normal.

[jonringer]

With the RFCs, I’m hoping that the amount of “work which must be done by release manager” will be pretty minimal. Any additional time that can be spared will just be very helpful.

[asymmetric]

@jonringer I’d be happy to help, could you please add me to the team? I am quite busy at the moment but I’d like to try nonetheless.