<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to keep the status quo in this. We don’t have formal maintainers and basically every change to the package/component is reviewed by relevant person (me/alp/aurelien//jimklimov/wacki/agnar). I would really like to see this list to grow and reach the phase that we need to start think about maintainers, but we are not yet there. The situation right now is that even if a person reviews the change and think that other person should have a look, e.g. me when I am reviewing some libs that might affect GUI i ask alp for crossreview or when alp touches X11 things, he ask aurelien etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would avoid creating a dedicated maintainers for now. If people really think it should be done, I would say it should be done on a technology stacks, e.g. Python, Ruby, webservers, X11, databases etc. In such cases every change would need to be approved by a relevant person. However, I think that might introduce latency and bureaucracy, which is really non-existent right now. I would like to keep it that way if possible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Adam</div><div class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 11, 2017, at 9:13 PM, Peter Tribble <<a href="mailto:peter.tribble@gmail.com" class="">peter.tribble@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Aurélien Larcher <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:aurelien.larcher@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">aurelien.larcher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="m_3915979824981721130gmail-im"><div class="">The question raised is whether we should formalize a maintaining process for some important components or groups of components.</div></span><br class=""><span class="m_3915979824981721130gmail-im"></span><span class="m_3915979824981721130gmail-im"><div class="">At some point I joked about a campaign going like "Adopt a package".<br clear="all" class=""></div></span></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are downsides to having a formal owner: they can become a<br class=""></div><div class="">bottleneck, and it might discourage others to contribute in an area<br class=""></div><div class="">where there's an individual (or individuals) listed. Also, people may be<br class=""></div><div class="">reluctant to contribute if there's a prospect of being lumbered with<br class=""></div><div class="">the responsibility going forward.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But, if you can avoid that, then there are benefits to having what we<br class=""></div><div class="">would call "Subject Matter Experts" for components or groups. Having<br class=""></div><div class="">someone who is reasonably familiar with the component, preferably<br class=""></div><div class="">someone who uses it, is useful as a source of help and advice, and<br class=""></div>having a list of such people and their specialities would be useful to<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">other contributors.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">Putting such a list on display would also show that OI wasn't just a<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">one or two person effort, which would be good.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br class=""><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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