Here is another alternative proposal: let's list Yuren and Alexandre
as owner, and George and Ricky as peer. Does that make sense?

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Tim Chien <[email protected]> wrote:
> That shouldn't be an option since Yuren and Alexandre will be
> continue providing support to the module as co-owners, but not
> day-to-day engineering.
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 02/10/14 05:29, Tim Chien wrote:
>>> This is the reality. I don't really know how our module ownership can
>>> reflect the reality while sticking with the rules. Please advice.
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> I would say that you don't want to have someone listed as an owner who
>> is not currently involved in the code. Sometimes people who have
>> knowledge of a code area but very little time to work on it are made
>> peers, sort of "emeritus", so you could do that.
>>
>> The owner should be the person involved with the code who has the best
>> knowledge of it and who makes the decisions about what goes in, what
>> stays out, how design is done and so on. The person with whom the buck
>> stops. If there isn't really such a person yet, it's OK for a module to
>> have no owner. That's just reflecting reality.
>>
>> Gerv
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tim Guan-tin Chien, Engineering Manager and Front-end Lead, Firefox
> OS, Mozilla Corp. (Taiwan)



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Tim Guan-tin Chien, Engineering Manager and Front-end Lead, Firefox
OS, Mozilla Corp. (Taiwan)
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