I like this idea so a +1 from me.
> On Mar 2, 2020, at 3:02 AM, Stephen Connolly > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can we add a concept of emeritus maintainer... by just commenting out their > username in the corresponding repository-permissions-updater yaml file? > > An emeritus maintainer would be indicating that they are no longer active, > but if they want to re-activate they do not need to wait for existing > maintainers to approve... or in the case of unmaintained plugins they do not > need to wait for the claim-ownership period. > > If all maintainers of a plugin are emeritus and someone wants to claim > ownership then the emeritus maintainers can short-circuit the transfer of > ownership rather than having to wait out the full period. > > My use case is that I currently wish to be marked emeritus for all plugins > that I am a maintainer of *except*: > > - gitea (until I get the gitea token auth implemented, then I'll be looking > for someone to adopt it) > - impersonation (until I decide whether to release it or kill it) > - mock-load-builder (needed for work commitments) > - random-job-builder (needed for work commitments) > - metrics (needed for work commitments) > > I may need to step back on the other plugins at shorter notice, so it would > be annoying to have to go though recovering maintainer status... which is why > I have not dropped those permissions. > > I do think we need to be able to reflect better the case where maintainers > are not actively maintaining but do not want to drop permissions because it > could trigger the plugin as completely unmaintained and thus a lot harder to > reclaim... yet by not dropping permissions it leaves others who might be > interested in adopting the impression that the plugin is actively maintained > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMw0XFtd1PR00yuhJJ-q8B0s6LqHK%3DResjH8P%3Di%3DJ%2B-MTw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/6E994ABD-F3E1-4FF6-9E8F-A27C7F9B04D2%40gmail.com.
