[Sugar-devel] Sugar Contribution

[Gonzalo Odiard]

To be fair, we discussed a few times write a policy about what to do in
these cases,
but never agreed in the terms. In particular how much time we should wait.
Other projects call MIA (missing in action) the situation, but we proposed
something less dramatic :)

Gonzalo

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Catching up on some old threads.
>
> James, we have procedures in place for transferring maintenance and
> have invoked these procedures on occasion. Essentially it entails
> contacting the maintainer and after a timeout, making a clone of the
> project. Since we know most of the maintainers, we don't get surprised
> too often. Note that in the case that triggered this thread, the
> contributor got almost immediate feedback from community members once
> the issue was brought to the attention of the community (10 minutes).
> Not sure we can do better than that.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> > That already happened... and happen on every open source project,
> > what is the question? Is about if we have a procedure?
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:24 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Concerning to lose contributions just because a maintainer takes a
> >> break.  What if a maintainer goes missing?
> >>
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Gonzalo Odiard

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