In retrospect, we should have figured out that Jia Tan was a plant from the fact that they showed up to do releases. In 20+ years of contributions to FLOSS projects I haven't found anybody willing to do the same.
@jason sure you can; collecting items for the change log, running the dist with the test suite, uploading release artefacts, writing release notes and announcements… it’s a “boring” job, so very few people show up to do that
@ebassi it’s definitely thankless but I’ve had so many projects where some new feature hasn’t been released and the last tag is from four years ago and there’s clearly still activity but… no release
I guess in the future I’ll just offer, because I am fine with this kind of work, whatever.
@whitequark admittedly, I'm a very weird person that will show up in barely maintained projects in the dependency chain of something I work on (paid or, more likely, volunteer) and offer to do release management—did that for a bunch of projects like libepoxy and cairo; but if I'm honest it's mainly a form of procrastination: don't have to work on my own projects if I have to maintain half their dependency chain.
@ebassi that's a honeypot to find out all the people that have done spurious releases, will that offence, complain in replies and blow their cover right?
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