Re: [Xen-devel] [DOCDAY] Maintenance Release Policy

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.11.12 at 11:52, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 09:56 +0000, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> > Each stable branch has a maintainer who is nominated/volunteers and
>> is
>> > accepted via consensus among the maintainers and committers (XXX or
>> just
>> > committers?). 
>> I am wondering whether we should treat this exactly like
>> maintainership. It's the same idea.
>> We could just add a "stable release" section to the MAINTAINERS file
>> and follow the same 
>> process of nominating a maintainer. Or track the stable release
>> maintainer in the branched
>> versions of the file. Does anybody have any views?
> 
> I think we could reasonably do both?

I'm not certain tracking stable branch maintainers in the -unstable
MAINTAINERS file is of much use, plus I would be afraid this would
then be forgotten to get updated upon releases (and hence getting
stale quite quickly).

Jan


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