On 07/18, Greg Sutcliffe wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking for a while about plugins, and how to continue them > when original authors move on. It's only natural that developers will > come and go, so we need to think about how to deal with this. We've got > a few examples of this now, and have had others in the past. > > 1) I'm playing with Salt in my spare time at the moment, with a view to > (maybe) taking on the foreman_salt plugin, since Stephen is no longer > working on it. However, it's only chance that I know this fact - > there's no easy way for an author to mark a plugin as "orphaned". > > 2) Some plugins are awaiting changes but the author hasn't responded > (yet!). Foreman_bootdisk has some open PRs at the moment that fall into > this category (PRs 42, 43 for example), and default_hostgroup has pen > issues (oops!). Presumably we need a way to ping authors and find out > if they're just AFK or have stepped away from the plugin entirely. > > 3) Some plugins are definitely abandoned. I recall Chris Pisano taking > over the foreman_banner plugin last year and struggling to get in touch > with the original author at all. > > For context, Fedora does have a policy for this that makes some sense: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintai > ners > > That's quite heavy, but some of the points make sense. So, do we need > to add something to our docs about this. My gut feeling is: > > * Yes, we do > * Only applies to plugins in "theforeman" GitHub repo > * We need to add extra maintainers to the Rubygems *before* the author > leaves - Chris had a real issue here. This could be a requirement of > getting aplugin packaged, for example.
+1 to this, I am stuck with foreman-docker where I want to give publish access to Bastilian but I can't > * We need to allow authors to "abandon" a plugin clearly (something > like how the Arch User Repository does it maybe?) I think marking this in a GitHub issue, README or somewhere like that would be enough, not sure if we need anything more formal than that (there are 1000s of packages in Fedora, only a few 10s of plugins?) > > Thoughts? > Greg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "foreman-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Daniel Lobato Garcia @dLobatog blog.daniellobato.me daniellobato.me GPG: http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A92D6DD38D6DE30 Keybase: https://keybase.io/elobato -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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