Re: PHP 8.2 Release Manager Selection

On 26.04.2022 at 12:31, Mark Randall wrote: > On 25/04/2022 12:51, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > >> Please put your name forward here if you wish to be considered a >> candidate.  An initial TODO page has been added to the wiki and contains >> provisional dates for GA and pre-releases[2]. > > I could potentially be interested in helping out with this, but I do > have a question about it, mainly, why hasn't most of this been automated > at this point? > > I was reading through the release process notes and am not seeing any > obvious blocks on most of it that could not be accomplished via a > suitable CI/CD pipeline. > > Is it just a matter of someone having time available to do it? > > The one thing which does make me ponder is would we need to assign a GPG > key to the build process? > > I'd be happy to give some of my time later this year to further > investigate this. There are docker images available[1] which automate parts of the build process. However, doing the builds is only a rather small part of the obligations of a release manager, and the other tasks (such as deciding whether to merge a pull request, doing bug triage, and deciding on the actual release schedule) cannot be automated. [1] <https://github.com/sgolemon/php-release> -- Christoph M. Becker