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  1. Discussion of community roles: Release Manager, JIRA Gardener, Documentation Gardener, Others?
  2. Get ideas and state objectives on making this happen (especially folks outside the fcrepo committer group)

Notes

Role

Qualifications Must be Committer?

Duration

Responsibilities

Release Manager
Yes

Required:
+ Is a committer

Per point release (e.g., quarterly)

  • Per-release feature scoping (w/group consensus)
  • Keeps tabs, makes sure people are assigned
  • Guards against scope/feature creep
  • Coordinates & communicates with authors of other tools on release ordering/compatibility issues
  • Coordinates pre-release testing
  • Physically performs the release (tagging, uploading, announcing, etc)
  • Decides on and communicates release dates to user and developer community

JIRA Gardener

Required:
+ Technical familiarity w/Fedora
Preferred:
+ Not a committer

Indefinite

  • Generally, keeps JIRA issues up to date
  • Harvests issues from mailing list
  • Ensures proper discussion of non-obvious issues before they go to "Open" state
  • Periodically reviews older issues for relevance

Documentation Gardener

Preferred:
+ Tech writing skills
+ Technical familiarity w/Fedora

Indefinite

  • Works with release manager to ensure the following system docs are up to date for upcoming releases:
    • Release notes
    • New features have appropriate docs
    • Old features are up to date
  • Reviews system documentation for accuracy, completeness, and usability (ongoing)
  • Ensures proper linkage to system docs from other areas of the site (main fedora-commons homepage, and other spaces in the wiki)

No

Indefinite

 

Documentation Gardener

No

Indefinite

 

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