Re: [Dev] Owners for external projects

[Mike Taylor]

Please coordinate with me any activity you take on Heikki's proposal - I have already started contacting many of the projects to find out this information and I don't think they would appreciate being barraged by OSAF'ers all asking the same questions.

thanks,

On Sep 28, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

Some of the external/ projects have changes pending on my personal test servers - the commiting of them just has not found a proper time slot to do it. Either time or Milestone related activities have prevented them.

We are in need of owners for the libraries in external/. There are some
responsibilities the owners would need to take over:

1. Make sure our patches (if any) get integrated into the original
projects. Right now we have some 2+ year old patches that are required

involve tweaking the patches based on review feedback.

2. Follow the releases of those projects and inform the OSAF release
team when we should upgrade. Reasons for upgrade include releases that
fix security issues, or releases that fix issues we are depending on in
Chandler.

3. Help OSAF release team integrate the upgrades. (Note that you don't
necessarily need to do the build related work to get the stuff actually
into Chandler, but any help you could provide would be appreciated.)



and spend perhaps 1 hour a week in communicating with external projects

I'd expect you to monitor the projects releases, something which should
take a few minutes a month at most.

Here are the libs:

SOAPpy
dateutil
epydoc
jabber-py
persistence/libxml2
pychecker
python
python/bzip2
python/zlib
readline
swig
zope

I am assuming the following have owners:

PyICU - Andi
PyLucene - Andi
icu - Andi
m2crypto - Heikki
openssl - Heikki
persistence/db - Andi
pylint (and subdirs) - Heikki
twisted - Brian K
vobject - Jeffrey
zanshin - Grant

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by Chandler sitting untouched in those projects' bug databases. This may In general, I expect the owners would need to do very little programming when we are actively trying to push patches in. If there are no patches,

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