Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules
On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:17 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: Does Gnome keep track of which projects need developers, documentators, maintainers, ...? I mean something similar to gnu's savanah. Developers: Always needed. Documentation: e.g. https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ApplicationHelp Maintainers: Not that I am aware of. The latter is a problem. What does Savanah exactly do? I'm only aware of Debian pinging maintainers automatically + regularly to confirm they are still around and not missing in action / away without official leave. I wonder what other FOSS projects do. Thanks to Fred we do have https://people.gnome.org/~fpeters/health/ which lists a code activity score (bus factor?) for each module - the lower the number, the better. But I assume those numbers don't automatically update and might be a bit dusty now. The question is who and how to turn that into something 'actionable'. As far as I know nobody is 'proactively' reaching out (where?) to maintainers on the leave (=making them realize) and finding potential folks to take over. andre (using words like 'proactive' and 'actionable' that he hates) -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:17 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote: Does Gnome keep track of which projects need developers, documentators, maintainers, ...? I mean something similar to gnu's savanah. Developers: Always needed. Documentation: e.g. https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ApplicationHelp Maintainers: Not that I am aware of. ... Thanks to Fred we do have https://people.gnome.org/~fpeters/health/ which lists a code activity score (bus factor?) for each module - the lower the number, the better. But I assume those numbers don't automatically update and might be a bit dusty now. ... The other side of it is knowing where maintainers are needed, and that requires knowing where the priority bugs are. The question is who and how to turn that into something 'actionable'. As far as I know nobody is 'proactively' reaching out (where?) to maintainers on the leave (=making them realize) and finding potential folks to take over. ... Seems like something the release team could be doing. It would require that we find the right formula for attracting maintainers, of course. Allan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Thanks for announcing because many developers end up AWOL not realizing and overcommitting while time is precious. Wondering if Engagement / Outreach (CCed) has general thoughts on communicating modules in need of active maintainership. It is possible, we could reach out through social media and maybe reddit/r/gnome or /r/linux. See if people might be interested in taking up maintainership. If you have prospects that you want to tap, that would be the best though. It's really inspiring and wonderful to be recognized and ask to take over a module. sri The new stats tab for modules on https://git.gnome.org/browse might list some maintainer candidates that could be contacted in such cases? On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 09:40 -0700, Giovanni Campagna wrote: - gnome-shell-extensions - Florian has been doing regular releases and bug fixes for this Related, there's also a growing review queue. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720636 andre -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules
On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:50 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: Thanks for announcing because many developers end up AWOL not realizing and overcommitting while time is precious. Wondering if Engagement / Outreach (CCed) has general thoughts on communicating modules in need of active maintainership. It is possible, we could reach out through social media and maybe reddit/r/gnome or /r/linux. See if people might be interested in taking up maintainership. If you have prospects that you want to tap, that would be the best though. It's really inspiring and wonderful to be recognized and ask to take over a module. I seriously doubt we'll find a new *maintainer* that way. A maintainer needs to be somebody who has a track record of contributions. For example, you might well consider Ross Lagerwall a maintainer of gvfs, or Phillip Wood one for sound-juicer. If you manage to find new developers for those projects, maybe in time they'll rise to become great maintainers... Cheers ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules
Giovanni Campagna giocampagn...@gmail.com wrote: ... As some of you know, I'm starting a new experience at university this fall, and I've come to the realization that the amount of work required is quite different that what was at my previous institution. Therefore, I am afraid I will not be able to commit enough time to GNOME this year, and I will not be able to fullfil my duties as maintainer, ... Thanks for all your amazing work, Giovanni. It's always a pleasure. I hope that you will be able to be more involved again after the masters. Best of luck! Allan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
