On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:27:24PM -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:

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But look! I'm already practicing: NO YOU CAN'T CHECK THAT IN. How's that? Needs work?

You could try a more positive leadership style: THAT LOOKS GREAT, I'M SURE THE RM FOR PYTHON 3.5 WILL LOVE IT ;-)

Wow! My release engineering team needs to take classes from you guys! -Toshio

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:

I've volunteered to be the Release Manager for Python 3.4.  The FLUFL has

That's cool. But just my thought, wouldn't it be better for someone who regularly commits, fixes bugs and feature requests be better for a RM role? Once a developer gets bored with those and wants more, could take up RM role. Is there anything wrong with this kind of thinking? Thanks, Senthil

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:

That's cool.  But just my thought, wouldn't it be better for someone who regularly commits, fixes bugs and feature requests be better for a RM role? Once a developer gets bored with those and wants more, could take up RM role. Is there anything wrong with this kind of thinking?

There is something to be said for letting those people continue to regularly commit and fix bugs rather than saddling them with the RM role. :) Schiavo Simon

On Nov 22, 2011, at 07:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:

I've volunteered to be the Release Manager for Python 3.4. The FLUFL has already given it his Sloppy Wet Kiss Of Approval,

I think you mistook that for my slackjaw droolings when you repeatedly ignored my warnings to run as far from it as possible. But you're persistent, I'll give you that. Looks like that persistence will be punis^H^H^H^H^Hrewarded with your first RMship! Congratulations (?).

and we talked to Georg and he was for it too. There's no formal process for selecting the RM, so I may already be stuck with the job, but I thought it best to pipe up on python-dev in case someone had a better idea.

But look! I'm already practicing: NO YOU CAN'T CHECK THAT IN. How's that? Needs work?

I look forward to seeing how the sausage is made,

Undoubtedly it will make you a vegan, but hopefully not a Go programmer! :) Seriously though, I think it's great for you to work with Georg through the 3.3 process, so you can take over for 3.4. And I also think it's great that someone new wants to do it. I kid, but the mechanics of releasing really isn't very difficult these days as we've continually automated the boring parts. The fun part is really making the decisions about what is a showstopper, what changes can go in at the last minute, etc. Like the president of the USA, I just hope your hair is already gray! -Barry