Good news Frank, Once we have one or more active maintainers, we will be happy to transfer the plugin to pytest-dev!
[]s On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 11:13 AM Frank Tobia <frank.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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