[Sugar-devel] [Activity Team] Wiki guidance for adopting orphaned Activities / Activity co-maintainer

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Ok. We need try encourage co-maintainership,
and see case by case.

Gonzalo

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Gonzalo,
>
> On 9 Apr 2012, at 05:07, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>
> > IMHO, seven days is not enough time to take a decision.
> > We can promise reply in seven days, and specially in the case of a new
> maintainer,
> > help him to be involved.
> > I am thinking in the case of Labyrinth, and trying to no repeat the same
> error.
>
> I think Labyrinth and myself as maintainer/developer was the original vat
> of boiling oil this all started with. I strongly disagreed with the design
> and a patch a deployment was shouting for landing but didn't have the
> bandwidth to write/present my version, after a week or so of me not getting
> time to spend on it, I had received a bunch of impatient emails, at which
> point I'd had enough of the inbox hassle and other tasks needing work, so I
> just handed over maintainership to get them off my back.
>
> Any way, yes I agree 7 days is not long enough for the complicated cases
> (e.g. deployment with potentially part time staff, or staff away on
> holiday), but in these cases (hopefully not too frequent) the Activity Team
> decision in that time can be 'no' while we further try to contact the
> maintainer for some given duration of time. We would just be acting as a
> cushion between potential forks (there is nothing stopping anyone form
> forking an Activity on day one and ignoring the existing maintainer), and
> hopefully have a little more history/knowledge with regard to an Activity
> and its maintainer vs. the new requestor.
>
> The primary reason for this FAQ entry is that Bernie seemed to think it
> was an issue from his experience with a past deployment, we/he can now
> point people to the FAQ if this comes up again. Ideally the push towards
> co-maintainers means that someone else can make a call on landing (or not)
> a patch if the lead maintainer is out of contact for a while.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Gary C Martin <
> garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This is a quick tentative shot a providing some FAQ guidance on the wiki
> for adopting orphaned Activities, or becoming an Activity co-maintainer.
> Nothing too dramatic or rocket-science but the conversation came up on IRC
> today with bernie and cjl so here it is:
> >
> >
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/FAQ#How_do_I_adopt_an_orphaned_Activity.2C_or_become_an_Activity_co-maintainer
> >
> > Shout if you disagree! :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > --Gary
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/attachments/20120409/c4900f2a/attachment.html>