Can't release applications

[Boudhayan Gupta]

Hi,

On 27 July 2016 at 16:00, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Luigi Toscano
> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 12:22:45 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> There's a major blocker when trying to release applications nowadays.
>>> To update the stable branch one needs to commit to the
>>> kde:sysadmin/repo-metadata.git repository, which can't be accessed by
>>> KDE Project maintainers.
>>>
>>> How can we solve this?

Note that we can give individual people RWC access to the repo. Just
file a ticket with the identity usernames of people who want that
right.

-- Boudhayan

>>
>> When you release, don't you file sysadmin tickets anyway for uploading the
>> files and other steps?
>
> Metadata changes ought to happen before upload though.
>
> change stable branch in metadata
> ⬇
> l10n freeze
> ⬇
> tarball creation
> ⬇
> upload & ticket
> ⬇
> release
>
> HS