On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:48 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Jake Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Om, Herve >> What action are you specifically trying to achieve with the role you are >> referring to as 'maintainer' ? >> > > Things like setting up builds which require more than just the Jenkins web > interface, kill stuck jobs, restart machines are required. Add, > upgrade/downgrade plugins as required, etc. > >
I realize it seems like a gigantic catch-22. Can't do much without karma. Need to do things to demonstrate merit to get karma. Far more difficult than being able to submit patches to a codebase. That said, it's also pretty far ranging authority that has a widespread effect on scores of projects, so it's hard to easily hand it out. It also requires a decent time investment. There's also plenty of low-hanging fruit that jobadmin is sufficient for. >> >> With the jenkins-admin karma you have you are able to look at jenkins >> tickets that are in the infrastructure backlog and close them out or you >> can answering questions on the builds@ list that people have. Just like >> any other Apache project karma is earned and not just given. This is >> probably a better link explaining how to volunteer than the wiki link for >> jenkins >> > > It does not appear as if there are folks looking at this mailing list to > evaluate how good a job I am doing here. I would like to know how many > admins are actually involved with administering Jenkins. With machines > being offline for days together, build issues not being fixed for weeks > together, I dont think there are many admins around here. Am I wrong? > > Who am I supposed to impress with my work so that I get admin access? Is > it just you? > Ultimately I imagine it's the root@ folks who get to make the decision on granting karma. > >> >> http://apache.org/dev/infra-volunteer.html#assist >> > > This link has no mention of Jenkins administration. > > It also doesn't mention scores of other services Infra maintains, but the advice remains valid. --David
