Re: A summary of some open discussions

[Brandon Invergo]

On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 18:33 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Siddhesh,
> 
> On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 23:19 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > I continue to express support for a more open governance model
> > with the understanding that it probably means nothing since I
> > am not a GNU maintainer.
> 
> Of course it means something! You are the glibc release manager.
> Responsible for the next version of the core of the GNU system. 

We have started to recognize people as having release-upload rights, even if
they aren't formal maintainers (this is really fairly recent and so far has been
handled on a case-by-case basis).  Siddhesh, if this applies to you in your
current role, please get in touch at maintainers@gnu.org (ideally CC'ing one or
more maintainers who can confirm).

"Upload rights" isn't much of a title, though, so I would be interested to hear
more about what a release manager does (although Mark gives some hints and I
think I can make a reasonable guess from the name). It's something that could be
formalized / officially recognized if it's generalizable to other packages. 

Thanks,
-brandon