Hi All Recently I have been having a crisis of confidence. I have, I hope, always tried to do what I think is best for the project. Often I do make mistakes, a notable one happened in 2007, which I hope I in part was rectified in 2008. But my underlying motivation with Koha has always been to do the best for the users of the software. In my role as Release Manager for 3.4 (and again for 3.6) what I felt was best for the software users was a stable and well tested release. This is something I made clear in my proposal, and which I had assumed was understood (but you know what they say about assumptions ;)). With the huge amount of work put in by over 80 people, I think we managed to achieve some measure of success with that with 3.4.0 and that the stability of the 3.2.x releases is something we can all be proud of. Over the last couple of weeks, comments and mails both on and off list have made me think that maybe I am out of step with what the community desires. For 3.6 quality was still the major goal, but perhaps I have misjudged what others want. This has resulted in sleepless nights and quite a large amount of self doubt. Luckily we are still early in the 3.6 cycle, there is time to fix it. Options as I see them 1/ Continue with the current workflow, patches signed off, passed qa, then into master, with the goal to increase the rate patches are signed off 2/ Refine the workflow to make signing off easier 3/ Redesign the workflow eliminating sign off (for a period, or all of the release) 4/ Step aside to let someone else have a go at RM As Paul has noted in another thread, I am not comfortable with allowing patches into master untested, and I don't think I could do a good job as RM if that were to become the case. In that case I would rather become one of the developers submitting patches again, so perhaps 3 and 4 are the same for me. So, in the interest of transparency and openness, there's where my head and heart are. I wish what is best for the users of Koha, and I fear that maybe I am out of step. Comments? Chris