On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 22:42, Robin Burchell <virot...@viroteck.net> wrote: > Q: What to do in the (unlikely) case of a bad maintainer? > > A: We don't have a clear path to follow for this, without the TSC. > > I guess this could perhaps fall under the CWG that Thiago mentioned? > Having a clear set of what constitutes 'bad' behavior (not > just for maintainers) is probably a good idea in that context anyway.
I'm part of KDE's CWG so maybe I can shet some light on this. The thing you will not have to worry about much here are obviously bad maintainers. These things will become obvious and more or less solve themself by means of peer pressure and the like. (It's still good to have a bit of a formal procedure for them imho.) The thing you do have to worry about, and what the CWG is mainly dealing with, are the slippery-slope cases. Those are the cases where someone is borderline unsupportive of new contributors or borderline not taking care enough of QA or just active enough to stay in the position but not doing enough anymore to really make the module thrive or borderline bitchy on IRC and so on and so on. In these cases people will be hesitant to kick the person out/remove them from the position (depending on the situation) and there will be discussions in the community because everyone draws the line at just a different enough point. Those cases are really hard to deal with and I don't have a good receipt for you how to formalize this for Qt. You will have to deal with those cases as they come I fear and maybe have a team like the CWG in place to do this when needed. I'm available for questions/advice about this. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher Amarok community manager kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org claimid.com/nightrose _______________________________________________ Opengov mailing list Opengov@qt-labs.org http://lists.qt-labs.org/listinfo/opengov
