On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 00:16, akuster <[email protected]> wrote: > the current maintenance model in openembedded-core is problematic due to > lack of well-working process of finding maintainers, and replacing them > when they're no longer able to contribute. This becomes especially > frustrating when maintainers silently disappear, and perfectly fine patches > produced by Auto Upgrade Helper and sent to them via private mail go wasted. > > > Can you clarify what you mean by silently disappear. By the time I have > time to process an update, someone else has sent the patches. >
That means: a) not sending any patches, despite AUH reminders, for months; b) not otherwise active or visible on the lists. You wouldn't qualify, so no worries. > > I'm proposing that some of the recipes in oe-core - those that are known > to lack an active maintainer - would be transitioned to 'community > maintenance'. > > Define active > The reverse of the above: sending patches OR otherwise active on the lists. > > Well that is one of the problems of putting tooling into the community's > hands. It is made it easy to send updates to the list. Is not uncommon to > accept "Update" as the only information, do you expect the submmiter to > deal with stable or the Package Maintainer? > We can certainly ask anyone who sends a patch to try and provide more information about the update. The reason I'm not doing it is that I have too many updates to handle; but someone with only a few recipes should be better able to find time for it. > > I agree there should be a way to update maintainers e-main once we > determine they are not longer willing to take part in that program or > absent. I believe this an issue in general for OpenSource has had to > address over the years. > My plan is to experiment with this for the python3* recipes in oe-core for a start: they've been bouncing between various people over the past couple of years, but no active maintainer has emerged. Alex
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