On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but I'm not sure I'm in favor of > it. It certainly beats a company using a shared account against policy > to allow for multiple maintainers. On the other hand, what are the > practical use cases here? As Kevin and Zbigniew said in > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2929 , interest-based groups instead of > employer-based groups seem like a better approach. Seems like the main > place this would be used is when the org is the upstream project, and > even then, an interest-based group open to the broader community seems > more in the Fedora spirit. So to address the specific questions:
Yeah, I think some of these groups cross large areas of interest, so it's hard to say 'xyz sig' because they are interested in a number of disparite areas. > > Should such groups require FESCo approval? > > Yes. These groups should be exceptional cases. > > > If so, what would be requirements to approve/deny? > > The group must represent something for with there is no broader > community interest. (e.g. I'm interesting in maintaining packages > produced by FunnelFiascCorp, but there's no broader FunnelFiasco SIG > because it's not a broader thing like weather or program management) > > > Should we require some documentation? ie, should the group have to make > > a doc/wiki page explaining what it's for and how to reach group owners > > in case of problems? > > No, because it won't be maintained. (I'd like to say yes, but I know > better) The fact that it's a group means we can see who the group > members are and thus can figure out how to contact them if needed. Yeah, thats definitely a good point. kevin
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