governance/wg-releases

Releases WG

Oversees all release branches, and tooling to support releases.

Membership

Avatar	Name	Role	Time Zone
	Shelley Vohr @codebytere	Chair	CET (Berlin)
	John Kleinschmidt @jkleinsc	Member	ET (Harrisburg)
	Charles Kerr @ckerr	Member	CT (New Orleans)
	Keeley Hammond @VerteDinde	Member	PT (Portland)
	Deepak Mohan @deepak1556	Member	JST (Nagano)
	Cheng Zhao @zcbenz	Member	JST (Nagoya)
	Samuel Attard @MarshallOfSound	Member	PT (Vancouver)
	Michaela Laurencin @mlaurencin	Member	ET (Boston)
	Calvin Watford @clavin	Member	MT (Salt Lake City)
	Darshan Sen @raisinten	Member	IST (Kolkata)
	George Xu @georgexu99	Member	PT (Seattle)
	David Sanders @dsanders11	Member	PT (Santa Barbara)

Emeritus Members

Emeritus Members

Avatar	Name	Role	Time Zone
	Sofia Nguy @sofianguy	Member	PT (San Francisco)
	Micha Hanselmann @deermichel	Member	CET (Prague)
	Anna Clegg @amclegg	Member	PT (San Francisco)
	Alexey Kuzmin @alexeykuzmin	Member	CET (Prague)
	Michelle Tilley @BinaryMuse	Member	PT (San Francisco)
	Erick Zhao @erickzhao	Observer	PT (San Francisco)

Areas of Responsibility

• Releasing Electron according to schedule
• Release timeline coordination
  • When to cut new branches for major release lines (e.g. 11-x-y)
  • Planning beta cycles, timelines, etc.
  • Listening and responding to feedback
• Management of Heroku apps for associated repositories
• Triaging issues and organizing beta stabilization issues for discussion.
• Determining which features are allowed to be backported to release lines.

Leadership Responsibilities

In addition to responsibilities outlined in the Charter, a Chair of the Releases Working Group should:

• Run regular release audits for supported branches using unreleased.
  • Check for unmerged backports and pull requests needing manual (non-trop) backports to release branches.
• Ensure releases are run for supported branches passing the pre-set unreleased commit threshold.
• Ensure relevant PRs are being backported to necessary branches, and that original PR openers are opening manual backports for those that trop is unable to handle itself.

Associated Repositories

See repos.md

Rules for Membership

In order to join the Releases Working Group, an aspiring member must:

1. Regularly attend three meetings
2. Request entry into Releases Working Group by asking the current Chair
3. Obtain consensus approval by vote of existing membership during a portion of a meeting which the requester shall not attend.

WG Removal Policy

If a sitting member of the WG has not been active in a meaningful way for at least one month, the WG may vote to remove them from its set of sitting members.

This is done primarily to ensure that there are no open avenues of compromise for the project given that the Releases WG confers notable permissions.

Meeting Schedule

• Sync Meeting 1 hour each Wednesday, alternating between two times: 16:30 UTC and 23:00 UTC.

Meeting notes may be viewed in meeting-notes.