On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:52 AM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi BigTop, > > There has been a lot of discussion as to what the future BigTop would look > like. To my understanding, one of the drivers has been not having enough > manpower to maintain all of the packaging and testing efforts for every > component. Similar problems are faced by the Fedora and Debian communities. > > Instead of an explicit kill or keep list, why not ask for volunteers who > are willing to maintain specific components? If a component's > maintainer(s) don't respond or review updates or build errors within a > specific time frame, components would be put on "probation" status. If > another maintainer doesn't volunteer, then the components are marked as > unmaintained and dropped from the build. In the future, if someone wants > to resurrect an unmaintained component, they can petition to do so and the > component can be put back on "probation" for a period of time. > > This is the approach the Fedora community uses. > > This will encourage folks to take ownership of components that are > important to them, provide clear guidelines for keeping vs dropping > packages, and solve the keep/drop debate organically. > > What do you think?
Personally, I like the idea very much. I guess one way to go about it is to start MAINTAINERS.txt with the current set of projects and let folks assign them to themselves? Thanks, Roman.
