Release Management Team
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The Release Management Team (RMT) oversees the final stage of each development cycle, to ensure all open items are closed before a major release.
Duties:
- Meet the deadlines pgsql-release@ sets for beta1 and final release.
- When the open items list has an unowned item, promptly inform the associated committer that he owns that item.
- Approve the creation of the corresponding stable branch, the welcoming of PostgreSQL submissions, and the resumption of CommitFests.
- Nag item owners to ensure forward progress.
Powers, exercisable by majority vote of the RMT, even in the face of no consensus or contrary consensus:
- Approve the commit of a patch for the purpose of resolving an open item, including reversion commits.
- Add or remove open items.
- Enact a feature freeze.
Before using one of those powers, the Release Management Team (RMT) should make more than zero effort to let normal community processes arrive at a sufficient answer. Given the aggressive schedule, the RMT may nonetheless use these powers quickly and often.
pgsql-release@ appoints the RMT and has the power to dissolve it.
Best Practices
- Have scheduled, weekly meetings to:
- Review open items and assign who is responsible for seeing them through
- Discuss timing for beta and final releases
- Discuss challenging issues and brainstorm ways to help find a solution
- Report back to pgsql-release with a summary of meeting, and any actionable items -release needs to be aware of
- Take notes; this is a good reference to look back and see how things are progressing
- Agree to a chat medium of choice to be able to quickly reach each other
- When prompting on updates to open items, try to bring something to drive it forward: a patch, a test, a question
- Hard decisions happen: it's good to discuss with others in the community to get more feedback before reaching a conclusion
- Bad news is easier to deal with when a decision is given fair consideration and transparent reasoning
