Re: community decision-making & 8.5

Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:50 -0700, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Heikki
> > Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > That implies that we need a release manager. Electing one would be the
> > > first step. That's a lot of work and responsibility, with lots of
> > > potential for making people cross, so in practice I think as soon as
> > > someone steps up to the plate and volunteers to do it, he's the one.
> > >
> > > I'm very happy with the way you ran the first commitfest. Thank you.
> > > Want to manage the rest as well?
> > 
> > +1 on both points.
> 
> Isn't "core" supposed to be the release manager?

Core is a decision-making committee.  A release manager is a person,
maybe two, but a committee doesn't work (unless they'd split up tasks in
tickets and have them assigned etc, but I don't see -core doing that.)

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