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Delegation for the Release Team



Dear Developers,

It is my great pleasure and honor to officialize the existence and the
powers of one of Debian's most important teams: the Release Team.

I'd like to stress that the delegation (below, between dashed lines)
does _not_ include "get the release in shape by fixing all RC bugs":
that stays the collective responsibility of the Project as a whole!

Internally, the release team distinguishes between:
 - Release Managers -- RM: Adam D. Barratt, Niels Thykier;
 - Stable Release Managers -- SRM: Adam D. Barratt, Philipp Kern;
 - Release Assistants -- RA: Andreas Barth, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel,
   Ivo De Decker, Julien Cristau, Jonathan Wiltshire, Cyril Brulebois,
   Mehdi Dogguy.
This distinction is not relevant in terms of delegated powers.

- Lucas

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Release Team delegation
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I hereby appoint the following developers as Release Team members:

- Andreas Barth <aba>
- Adam D. Barratt <adsb>
- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel <faw>
- Ivo De Decker <ivodd>
- Julien Cristau <jcristau>
- Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw>
- Cyril Brulebois <kibi>
- Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi>
- Niels Thykier <nthykier>
- Philipp Kern <pkern>

The delegation is not time-limited. It will be effective until
further changes by present or future DPLs.

Task Description
----------------

The Release Team oversees and manages the releases of the testing,
stable, and oldstable distributions (aka suites).

 * Release Team members decide on the release schedule (e.g.; freeze date,
   release date for stable releases and point-releases for stable and 
   oldstable)

 * Release Team members define the content of the suites listed above,
   that is:

   + They define the packages that are part of those suites. Generally,
     that is achieved:
     - by deciding which issues are release-critical (RC) -- making the
       affected packages not suitable for stable releases -- usually by
       setting the corresponding bug's severity to serious, grave or
       critical;
     - by deciding which package modifications (e.g.; bugfixes) are
       suitable for inclusion in those suites;
     - by deciding when and how updated packages migrate between suites.
       When necessary, they may temporarily forbid specific uploads to
       unstable in order to facilitate transitions.

   + They define the ports (architectures) that are part of those suites,
     by deciding which issues are severe enough to prevent a port from
     being part of a stable release.

 * Release Team members decide on the codenames for stable releases.

 * Release Team members coordinate the work on the release notes, and
   have the final say on their content.

 * Release Team members have the final say on the official material
   for each release (e.g., they decide which CD images are official
   ones).

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