Re: The purpose of the core team - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: The purpose of the core team
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Msg-id 5579D87E.9010704@agliodbs.com
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In response to The purpose of the core team  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 06/11/2015 11:47 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> After going over this a few times, there is one thing that strikes me
> that nobody has mentioned: the list of tasks mentioned there has one
> that's completely unlike the others.  These are related to human
> relations:
> 
>     Acting as a conduit for confidential communication.
>     Making policy announcements.
>     Managing permissions for commits, infrastructure, etc.
>     Handling disciplinary issues.
>     Making difficult decisions when consensus is lacking.
> 
> while this one is highly technical:
>     Coordinating release activities.
> 
> It seems that only this last one is where most people seem to have a
> problem.  I wonder if it makes sense to create a separate group that
> handles release activites -- the "release team."

De-facto, this is Packagers.  Which is maybe not the best system, but
it's what we're doing now.


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Josh Berkus
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