I like this idea so a +1 from me.
> On Mar 2, 2020, at 3:02 AM, Stephen Connolly > <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Can we add a concept of emeritus maintainer... by just commenting out their > username in the corresponding repository-permissions-updater yaml file? > > An emeritus maintainer would be indicating that they are no longer active, > but if they want to re-activate they do not need to wait for existing > maintainers to approve... or in the case of unmaintained plugins they do not > need to wait for the claim-ownership period. > > If all maintainers of a plugin are emeritus and someone wants to claim > ownership then the emeritus maintainers can short-circuit the transfer of > ownership rather than having to wait out the full period. > > My use case is that I currently wish to be marked emeritus for all plugins > that I am a maintainer of *except*: > > - gitea (until I get the gitea token auth implemented, then I'll be looking > for someone to adopt it) > - impersonation (until I decide whether to release it or kill it) > - mock-load-builder (needed for work commitments) > - random-job-builder (needed for work commitments) > - metrics (needed for work commitments) > > I may need to step back on the other plugins at shorter notice, so it would > be annoying to have to go though recovering maintainer status... which is why > I have not dropped those permissions. > > I do think we need to be able to reflect better the case where maintainers > are not actively maintaining but do not want to drop permissions because it > could trigger the plugin as completely unmaintained and thus a lot harder to > reclaim... yet by not dropping permissions it leaves others who might be > interested in adopting the impression that the plugin is actively maintained > -- > 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/CA%2BnPnMw0XFtd1PR00yuhJJ-q8B0s6LqHK%3DResjH8P%3Di%3DJ%2B-MTw%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/6E994ABD-F3E1-4FF6-9E8F-A27C7F9B04D2%40gmail.com.
