Release Team Members: input requested...

[Kate Stewart]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:01 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:09:56 AM Kate Stewart wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 17:54 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> > > Hi Kate (2012.04.03_16:47:27_+0200)
> > > 
> > > > Not sure that its necessary to keep up with the queue bot feed ;),
> > > > but
> > > > a periodic scan of the queue[1] and flagging the ones that may have
> > > > been overlooked in the channel would be very useful.
> > > 
> > > We can do that. Or at least I can.
> > 
> > Thanks!   That would be useful.
> > 
> > > > > It's hard to be a focal point of contact with MOTU, but we can
> > > > > respond to any "can I upload this" queries. We get a good few
> > > > > of those, but the response is usually "If you have to ask, you
> > > > > should be filing an FFe".> > 
> > > > Process pages [2] are calling for a focal point to be established
> > > > for
> > > > the FFEs reviews for universe
> > > > 
> > > > If this is the last beta before ReleaseCandidateProcess,
> > > > 
> > > >       * Work with universe/multiverse community to identify
> > > >       delegates to> >       
> > > >         approve Feature Freeze Exceptions, in addition to
> > > >         ubuntu-release until the date of Final Freeze for
> > > >         universe.
> > > 
> > > I assume most of us will be able to continue to approve FFes. I
> > > certainly can.
> > 
> > Fair enough.
> > 
> > Scott, Iain, Stefan, Iulian,  - are you comfortable with me just
> > pointing folks to all of you in the email for FFe reviews?
> 
> Should we just recreate motu-release?
> 
> We have one release team and I don't think we should change that.

Alternately,  we can all agree the process step doesn't make sense
anymore, and add edit it to reflect the reality.

I think useful to give folks a contact point if things don't resolve
quickly on their own to act as an ombudsman and steer it towards
someone who has the bandwidth and can resolve.   But if others all
disagree,  we can try it with just the generic channel reference.

Kate