+1 I'm itching to stay active (and keep my UI sprint momentum going) but I don't want to bother "my" rock star (Martin) too much for direction ;-)
Alex (Clark) On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:11:30PM +0100, Tom Lazar wrote: > On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Thierry Benita wrote: > > >What do you think of this idea ? Do you think that it is > >possible/affordable ? > > + 100 and thanks for the nice writeup, i think this initiative comes > at a very good time, because on the one hand we definitely need to > lighten the load of responsibility that currently is divided among > the very few shoulders of our 'rock stars'. > > but on the other hand, plone's embracing of the z3 component > architecture should actually make that kind of sharing of > responsibility much easier (and more precise). > > take hanno's `statusmessages` product for instance, a super small > product all in itself. just yesterday i found a bug in it and given > the fact, that the entire functionality is just a few lines of > (isoltaed) code i was (surprisingly) easily able to come up with a > patch. > > however, as thierry described, i was too shy too directly commit it, > so i sent the patch to hannosch for his review (still pending, the > guy does need some sleep, after all! ;-). > > however, now that i'm fairly familiar with this product's inner > workings i already would feel confident taking over maintainership of > it, while hannosch still remains 'mentor' of it. > > so, perhaps, to ease the transition the current de facto maintainer > of a package could offer 'mentorship' (i.e. provide support for the > maintainer, as opposed to everybody). > > on a practical level, i guess we could just simply start with using > this mailing list for the process of offering packages up for > maintenance and applying for them and use the product's READMEs to > keep track of who's taken over what (perhaps with some standardized > text format for grep-convenience). > > just my EUR 0.02, > > tom > > _______________________________________________ > Framework-Team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team -- Alex Clark _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
