Oleg, please allow me to disagree on your point of view: - It is a pity and a missed opportunity that you didn't contribute when reviewing the proposal earlier in the process. - I don't have the same interpretation as you on mentoring (formal and informal).
I will closely follow how this unfolds and pull the alarm signal/emergency brake should the GSoC project derail and miss its objectives. /- Jmm Le mer. 15 juin 2022 à 15:27, Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hello Jean-Marc, > > Yes, I am not very active in the project at the moment. You and many other > community members know the reasons. Also, there have not been any serious > contributions that I would be ready to merge as a maintainer. Sadly, I > cannot do much more about my capacity at the moment, be sure I would like > to return to Jenkins development too. > > Back to the request. While I understand the desire, at the moment I am > against this request. Google Summer of Code is important, but right now > there are serious concerns about the project scope and implementation. We > discussed it on Slack and during the recent project meeting. The currently > planned implementation of the project goes against the common Jenkins > extensible architecture and the vision for Jenkinsfile Runner as a > manageable tool. As a maintainer of Jenkinsfile Runner I am not ready to > accept the hardcoded support for GitHub actions into the core Jenkinsfile > Runner components, as the current design intends. > > And be sure I do not want to be a bottleneck. Quite opposite, I want to > have more maintainers in the project. Same time neither Kris nor Yiming > have enough experience with Jenkinsfile Runner at the moment, and they do > not have enough maintainer experience in Jenkins yet. IMO they are not > ready to skip the common maintainer onboarding stages and to become > maintainers right away. I am also ready to provide mentorship for them as > aspiring maintainers, but it will take a few months before they are ready > to become maintainers. > > During the discussions I committed to provide reviews to all Jenkinsfile > Runner contributors, including Kris and Yiming. I am ready to provide > technical feedback as an advisor. This is all I can commit to at the > moment, and the GSoC org admin team was well aware about it during the > project selection. Happy to discuss more at the next GSoC project meetings > or in this mailing list. > > Best regards, > Oleg Nenashev > > > On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 12:07:13 PM UTC+2 Jean-Marc Meessen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> In my position as Jenkins GSoC Org Admin, I am requesting to add Kris >> Stern as maintainer of the Jenkins File Runner Github repositories. Kris is >> the lead mentor for the Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub Actions >> <https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2022/projects/jenkinsfile-runner-action-for-github-actions/> >> 2022 >> GSoC project. >> The two Github repositories are >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkinsfile-runner and >> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkinsfile-runner-github-actions >> >> It is critical for the success of the GSoC projects that at least one >> mentor has maintainer rights on the related Github project. A fluid PR flow >> is key to achieve the objectives within the allocated summer months. This >> is not the case for the above mentioned project. Oleg Nenashev, who is >> maintainer, initially volunteered as mentor for that project. But he had to >> withdraw because of workload and personal issues. Although he still tries >> to free time to advise the GSoC project team, measures need to be taken to >> avoid bottlenecks. >> Note that maintainer activity, by Oleg and the two other maintainers (E. >> Gutierrez and F. Fernandez), has been very low since autumn 2021. >> >> /- Jmm >> >> Jean-Marc Meessen >> Jenkins GSoC Org Admin >> > -- > 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/aa371b59-1c16-4ddb-b493-1e56c847d9efn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/aa371b59-1c16-4ddb-b493-1e56c847d9efn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABLvyXwHu7iRFQe8r5gOk0yN%3DD5UwkbOKBD4q3Dr8FAcg9vzNg%40mail.gmail.com.
