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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 Process
From: dsoria@gmx.net (David Soria Parra)

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On 10/15/2013 05:19 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
> From my understanding it is a little bit of project management and 
> resolving some disputes whether or not some feature should be 
> approved/rejected(usually you just point to 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess RFC), but most of the times
> it is just following 
> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.RELEASE_PROCESS,
>
> 
so tagging/packaging the release, writing the release announcement, etc.

It is mostly project managing and QA. During alpha/beta phase it is
manging and creating lists of things that need to be done and asking
the people to do it as well as keeping and eye on RFC discussions, etc.
During beta/RC it is checking that nobody is adding new features, etc
and judging if the current implemented features are mature enough to
be kept (but don't mistaken this as a decision as to "what" goes it,
that's RFCs + votes). In the end it's your responsibility to release a
mature software that can be deployed by millions of people. Once
released your main job as an RM is to keep an eye on security related
bugs and follow the release process as much as possible. It's also a
lot of talking to other RMs in order to release bugfixes, etc
together, ensure we have a CVE, ensure that announcments are correct, etc.

So it's just managing and checking that people do follow RFCs and that
the project itself is following the release process rfc.

David

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