Clarify policy for Release Manager Selection#28
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| Release managers SHOULD NOT be a hands-off release manager for more than one | ||
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The only exception that I can think of here, is that if a hands-on one disappears, and the hands-off one needs to take over for an extended amount of time.
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That's why I used a SHOULD here. With the current practice of current hands-on 👉 next hands-off, there should not be a situation where any RM does more than one hands-off release, but I don't think it is necessary to make this a hard blocker, since I expect it to be reasonably unlikely for a hands-on RM to disappear (particularly not in the first two years).
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As Jakub indicated, I think we should include a way that if no volunteer seems to clear a "safe pair of hands" bar, then we need find another solution/person. I would in such case rather have a hands-off RM manage another release, then an unsuitable person. The trick is naturally how to set a bar for "Safe pair of hands".
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Where did Jakub indicate that? But I don't think this is a concern in practice, we have always managed to find (new) RMs that were suitable and with the limit of “at most one hands-on release”, just 6 folks would be sufficient to manage releases, while staying fully in line with the proposed policy:
- 8.5: hands-on: A + B; hands-off: Z
- 8.6: hands-on: C + D; hands-off: A
- 8.7: hands-on: E + F; hands-off: C
- 8.5 goes out of active support
- 8.8: hands-on: A + B; hands-off: E
- 8.6 goes out of active support
- 8.9: hands-on: C + D; hands-off: B
- 8.7 goes out of active support
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| The hands-off release manager MUST be a veteran release manager, meaning they | ||
| MUST have previously served as a release manager. The hands-off release manager | ||
| SHOULD be a hands-on release manager of a currently supported PHP version. It is |
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"of a currently supported PHP version" as of when? I assume this is "as of selection and/or GA", but we should be clear
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This is identical, because the support expires at the end of a calendar year and both selection and GA is happening in the same year. I'm noting though that I explicitly mentioned “including the pre-release period” further below.
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