[tei-council] A newbie's hello

[Martin Holmes]

Hi Peter, and welcome to you and all the new members!

The release process is increasingly well-documented, and when we do it, 
there's always a little team of us who purport to understand it 
reasonably well, watching the process and hanging out with the "release 
technician" in IRC. The main reason for having someone new (not 
necessarily new to Council, just new to the release process) do it every 
time is to get fresh eyes on the documentation; each time we learn that 
one or two of the steps is not quite clearly specified enough, or 
something is missing, and it helps us to improve the docs.

It can be a bit time-consuming -- we usually set aside a day for it, and 
that day frequently starts in the morning in Europe and ends in the 
evening over here on the Pacific Coast -- but we're getting better at 
preparation, and hoping to cut that down; it's usually because we go 
through the process twice or even three times because we notice some 
tiny typo in the release notes or something like that. You're not 
actually doing very much for 95% of the time -- just waiting for the 
Jenkins servers to finish rebuilding the entire Guidelines to fix that 
little typo.

So please do have a go!

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-10-30 06:51 AM, Peter Stadler wrote:
>
> Am 30.10.2013 um 14:37 schrieb Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk>:
>
>> i think it would be great if Peter diid the next release, an excellent opportunity to have another pair of eyes on the documentation.
>>
>> its not very scary, peter….
>
> I am scared, you bet!
>
> Best
> Peter
>
>
>

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)