+1 I totally agree! 2015-10-05 17:10 GMT+02:00 Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com>: > +1 > > In addition, I'd like to work on additional plugins, so being aware of ones > that need help would be great. > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, 08:05 Daniel Beck <m...@beckweb.net> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> One problem that's been apparent for a while is that maintainers appear to >> lose interest in their plugins. While we're set up to handle this situation >> and can appoint other maintainers, it seems that more plugins become >> stagnant over time. My hypothesis is that users may not be aware that this >> is a problem, or that they could be the solution. >> >> My suggestion is to point users, many of who are potential maintainers, to >> plugins that haven't been maintained in a while -- not to discourage their >> use, but encourage contacting us to be made plugin maintainer. >> >> The first step here is to mark plugins as up for adoption. We could use >> the plugin's wiki page, as entry point to all plugin's online documentation, >> for that. The plugin info box at the top could include a banner that with a >> short explanation that the plugin is part of this initiative, linking to a >> wiki page with more information and how to take over plugin ownership. >> Plugin authors could do this as well if they've lost interest and would like >> someone else to take over -- before they're abandoning it. >> >> As a second step, we could create an index of all affected plugins, >> allowing interested devs to browse a list of plugins for which they could >> take over maintainership. >> >> WYDT? >> >> Daniel >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/D17FA37C-4FA5-497C-A737-8635E272E85A%40beckweb.net. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPiUgVcFYkfLvaqG%2BuaumAytKhU9nsa0UrM7Ni_C6z5xnO9L5A%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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