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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

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Jeremy Blosser wrote:
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>> Also, we need to loosen up who can make/sign the grimoire tarballs.
>> Right now, I believe it's limited to two people. If they're not around,
>> it won't happen. I'm proposing that any Lead Developer can be allowed to
>> do the releases. If we're that uneasy about giving our Lead's the power
>> to do so alone, have it require two signatures from two different Leads.
>> As long as we open it up some so that we can move forward even if a few
>> leads are out of the picture. Same thing goes for integrations.
> 
> This strikes me as "changing project policy to resolve a single component
> issue" and it seriously dillutes the Grimoire Lead's authority over his
> component.  I would rather we ask/require the Grimoire Lead to formally
> identify a set of people allowed to sanction/sign releases, be they Leads
> or otherwise.  There should be enough of these identified to make sure it
> can happen on time.  Right now we frankly have exactly one person who is
> *allowed* to do this (Arwed).  Seth has a key in there from when he was QA
> lead but Arwed's never actually said he has the authority to do releases
> (that I've seen).
> 
> The PL should also have implicit authority to step in and do the releases
> (or have someone else do them on his authority) if the process identified
> by the Grimoire Lead falls apart due to lack of people/etc.

It was not my intention to undermine the authority, just to make it
easier to get things to happen. This is an excellent idea.


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