[oi-dev] Discussing maintainers visibility in oi-userland

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Aurélien Larcher <
aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The question raised is whether we should formalize a maintaining process
> for some important components or groups of components.
>
> At some point I joked about a campaign going like "Adopt a package".
>

There are downsides to having a formal owner: they can become a
bottleneck, and it might discourage others to contribute in an area
where there's an individual (or individuals) listed. Also, people may be
reluctant to contribute if there's a prospect of being lumbered with
the responsibility going forward.

But, if you can avoid that, then there are benefits to having what we
would call "Subject Matter Experts" for components or groups. Having
someone who is reasonably familiar with the component, preferably
someone who uses it, is useful as a source of help and advice, and
having a list of such people and their specialities would be useful to
other contributors.

Putting such a list on display would also show that OI wasn't just a
one or two person effort, which would be good.

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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