On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In the past when I've needed changes merged in this codebase I've had > to actively search out people who feel comfortable reviewing it and > +2ing it. (snip) > I personally think the idea of a code maintainer is outdated, Then let's call them 'people who feel comfortable reviewing and +2ing' patches in a repository. :) Or first points of contact that can help you adding reviewers. Knowing who might be good reviewers for a patch is not simple even for those developers working full time at the Foundation. Imagine the situation of the rest of contributors. > we should all be maintaining the code in the MediaWiki world. Nice thought, but still not helpful for someone like Florian wondering who should review his patch. Looking at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers and looking at http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340 ( Start the process of expanding the arch committee), one idea could be to organize all those components in areas, nominating "meta-maintainers" for each area. This way, if a specific component doesn't have any maintainers assigned, at least someone like Florian could check with the related meta-maintainer. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
