Re: My views on release management

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:09:33AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> >   * Be present and active during important events like the freeze or
> > the release.  When the release time is measured in hours, I expect the
> > release manager to take whatever drugs are necessary to stay awake :-)
> 
> or choose two release manager that live in different parts of the world, so
> they will be online 24h/24h, without missing sleep or so. Peoples with
> different sleeping habbits will do also. Maybe a release manager, with some
> assistant managers, who could be also goal sponsors or not ...

This would be great, but I don't see how it is possible unless the
two release managers share a brain.  I'd love to find someone with whom
I can work together that closely, but I'm not going to count on it.

You're right in that a lot can be delegated to the "goal sponsors".
They can function as assistant release managers for their chosen
goals, and maybe one of them will become a good partner/successor.

A lot of the release process is tied to the daily archive run in any
case, so being online before that time once a day should be
enough for most of the freeze.  Now, if Jason Gunthorpe succeeds
in speeding up the archive scripts to the point that they can
be run multiple times a day, there might be a problem :-)

In any case, I hope that making plans well in advance will reduce
the number of things that have to be decided on the spot.  (*sounds
of laughter from the audience*)

Richard Braakman