On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:54 PM Craig Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote:
> PROBLEM

Nicely written up. I wonder if this is “big” enough to qualify as a
“process” JEP¹?

> … the mailing lists receive a lot of messages.  For casual Jenkins users who 
> maintain plugins, it is easy to miss these types of e-mails.

Note that the current process requires the maintainer to be CC’d, so
you need not actually be subscribed to any list at all, and some
people’s mail filters/clients will highlight messages with an direct
CC.

> The current plugin maintainer will receive an e-mail from JIRA. …
> If the plugin owner does not respond to the JIRA ticket within 3 weeks 
> (enough time to cover reasonable vacation time, sick time, emergency)

I make no claims to be representative, but for what it’s worth I am
likely to see a message CC’d to me on the dev list within a day at the
most, whereas a mention in JIRA goes to the bucket of >1000 unread
notifications. (Maybe that just means I should not be the maintainer
of anything!)

Basically: having a clear way to track the status of an adoption
request seems like a good step, and keeping detailed discussions in
JIRA is fine too, but I think we should we using all available
channels to grab the attention of an existing maintainer, even if that
results in a bit more traffic on the dev list. It is not uncommon for
third parties to take an interest in an adoption request anyway—they
may have better information on who is active on the plugin, or want to
help out themselves, or could warn the potential adopter about reasons
why the plugin might be obsolete and to not waste time on it.


¹ https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/blob/master/jep/1/README.adoc#jep-types

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