On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowd...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowd...@redhat.com> > > To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkara...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "Amar Tumballi" <atumb...@redhat.com>, "GlusterFS Maintainers" < > maintain...@gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" > > <gluster-devel@gluster.org>, "Michael Scherer" <msche...@redhat.com> > > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 5:22:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Maintainers 2.0 > Proposal > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkara...@redhat.com> > > > To: "Michael Scherer" <msche...@redhat.com> > > > Cc: "Amar Tumballi" <atumb...@redhat.com>, "GlusterFS Maintainers" > > > <maintain...@gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" > > > <gluster-devel@gluster.org> > > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:12:32 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Maintainers 2.0 > Proposal > > > > > > Do we also plan to publish similar guidelines for deciding on Project > > > maintainer? > > > > +1 for defining roles, responsibilities and qualifications of a Project > > manager. > > s/manager/maintainer/ :) > Agreed. There is a need to define the responsibilities of various roles - architects, project maintainers, project and community leads. We have used some of these terms interchangeably in the past. Will add more details on these roles and provide more clarity. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:24 AM, Michael Scherer < msche...@redhat.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le samedi 18 mars 2017 à 16:47 +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri a écrit : > > > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Amar Tumballi < atumb...@redhat.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I don't want to take the discussions in another direction, but want > > > > > clarity on few things: > > > > > > > > > > 1. Does maintainers means they are only reviewing/ merging patches? > > > > > 2. Should maintainers be responsible for answering ML / IRC > questions > > > > > (well, they should focus more on documentation IMO). > > > > > 3. Who's responsibility is it to keep the gluster.org webpage? I > > > > > personally feel the responsibility should be well defined. > > > > > > Theses point seems to have been overlooked (as no one answered), yet I > > > think they do matter if we want to expand the community besides coders. > > > > > > And since one of the goal is to "Welcome more contibutors(sic) at a > > > project impacting level", I think we should be also speaking of > > > contributions besides code (ie, website, for example, documentation for > > > another). > > > > > > While on it, I would like to see some points about: > > > > > > - ensure that someone is responsible for having the design discussion > in > > > the open > > > - ensure that each feature get proper testing when committed, and the > > > maintainers is responsible for making sure this happen > > > - ensure that each feature get documented when committed. > > > > > > If we think of contribution as a pipeline (kinda like the sales > funnel), > > > making sure there is documentation also mean people can use the > > > software, thus increasing the community, and so helping to recruit > > > people in a contributor pipeline. > > > > > > Proper testing means that it make refactoring easier, thus easing > > > contributions (ie, people can submit patches and see nothing break, > even > > > for new features), thus also making people likely more at ease to > submit > > > patches later. > > > > > > And making sure the design discussion occurs in the open is also more > > > welcoming to contributors, since they can see how we discuss, and learn > > > from it. > Agree to all of these. The current guidelines for maintainers / owners lists most of these points as core responsibilities [1]. Thanks, Vijay [1] https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Contributors-Guide/Guidelines-For-Maintainers/
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