On Monday, 2 March 2020 11:19:07 UTC, Daniel Beck wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:02 PM Stephen Connolly <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Seems like this can trivially be accomplished by amending the usual > adoption process (2 week timeout) to special-case "I used to maintain > this". We've actually done that already in the past, when the last release > pre-dated the cutoff date I used to initialize the permission files: The > requester told us they maintained the plugin back 2012, they'd like to get > permissions back. Nobody else was around to tell us "no" (i.e. no other > co-maintainers recorded), so it was just done. > > My main question here is how this would impact plugins with active > maintainers. If you remove yourself from credentials plugin, it is > currently considered to be maintained jointly by seven people. Do you > expect to get permissions back without any approval from any of them, if > you decide to? >
If there are active maintainers, they can veto within a fixed period of time (say 72h or 1 week or whatever people want), but I think it would have to be a veto not an approval. -- 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/cb6de16c-7621-4244-a373-12dbbb62cd4c%40googlegroups.com.
