Good point re: transfer ownership != maintenance handoff. I'll try to drum up some number of maintainers. At least one potential volunteer has reached out to me so far, so thanks for the tweet :)
-Frank On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 6:41 PM Bruno Oliveira <nicodde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Thanks for the interest in transferring pytest-ordering over to pytest-dev! > > Keep in mind though that the intent of moving plugins over to the > pytest-dev organization is not to transfer maintenance responsibilities, > but a way for plugins to get more visibility and prevent "plugin > abandonment", where the sole maintainer is no longer responsive and the > plugin is effectively dead because nobody else has commit/publishing > rights. > > Having said that, before moving the plugin over to pytest-dev (which it > would be welcome otherwise!) I suggest to find some co-maintainers first, > so when the plugin gets transferred, it will have someone to fix the > eventual bug or merge a PR. > > People have had great success getting interested co-maintainers by posting > to mailing lists and Twitter, as well as asking if any of the previous > contributors would be interested in being co-maintainers; it might be > surprising how sometimes people step in. > > Let me know if you have any questions! > > Cheers, > Bruno > > > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:45 PM Frank Tobia <frank.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I wrote pytest-ordering but I haven't been doing a great job of >> maintaining it. I'd like to transfer ownership to the pytest-dev group if >> that's amenable. I think all the requirements for transferring are >> fulfilled but I'd appreciate calling out if I missed something ( >> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#submitting-plugins-to-pytest-dev >> ). >> >> Here's the repo: https://github.com/ftobia/pytest-ordering >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> -Frank >> _______________________________________________ >> pytest-dev mailing list >> pytest-dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev >> >
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