Re: plugin project leads

2005-12-28 Thread Brett Porter
Jason van Zyl wrote:
 People will always come and go but some people are willing to steward
 a particular plugin. If there ends up not being those people then
 that's fine. But I would hope some people care enough. They can always
 work with the group of interested people and person who wants to
 steward will most likely shift over time. If someone wants to take
 charge and apply patches and do releases and assign themselves the
 lead then they should go for it. I don't see it as an ownership thing,
 I see it as a stewardship thing.
I don't think its a care factor, its just that it goes off the radar.
Especially when one steward gets 10+ plugins and has other things to do
as it is.

I think regular reporting, giving anyone the opportunity to volunteer,
is a better alternative here.

 Irrespective of that I agree that some form of review should be done.
 All the information required for the view we should be able to glean
 from the stock of information we have. Release dates can be picked off
 (if not easily now, then we can make it easier using the repo
 manager), issues closed for releases, stagnant issues or whatever else.
+1

Cheers,
Brett

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RE: plugin project leads

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Massol


 -Original Message-
 From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: mercredi 28 décembre 2005 14:35
 To: Maven Developers List
 Subject: Re: plugin project leads
 
 Jason van Zyl wrote:
  People will always come and go but some people are willing to steward
  a particular plugin. If there ends up not being those people then
  that's fine. But I would hope some people care enough. They can always
  work with the group of interested people and person who wants to
  steward will most likely shift over time. If someone wants to take
  charge and apply patches and do releases and assign themselves the
  lead then they should go for it. I don't see it as an ownership thing,
  I see it as a stewardship thing.
 I don't think its a care factor, its just that it goes off the radar.
 Especially when one steward gets 10+ plugins and has other things to do
 as it is.
 
 I think regular reporting, giving anyone the opportunity to volunteer,
 is a better alternative here.

I don’t think it's an or thing. As Jason has said it's an and: both
needs to be done. IMO there's a need for a plugin lead. Preferably this is
the person who has a good history of the plugin and who can provide
explanations/directions for contributors, possibly review and apply patches,
etc. It doesn't mean he's the only committer on the plugin of course.

The pb we had with m1 was not the problem of having leads. It was more the
fact that they need to change and we didn't control well enough when leads
were still written as leads but actually not leading any more (i.e. they
were on other stuff).

I think having leads is a good thing. It also provides additional visibility
for those accepting to be leads and that's usually a good tradeoff.

  Irrespective of that I agree that some form of review should be done.
  All the information required for the view we should be able to glean
  from the stock of information we have. Release dates can be picked off
  (if not easily now, then we can make it easier using the repo
  manager), issues closed for releases, stagnant issues or whatever else.
 +1

+1

-Vincent






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Re: plugin project leads

2005-12-27 Thread Brett Porter
I think we still have a lot to do on these projects.

1) turn off assign to lead by default. This doesn't fit with our process
and is the cause of all your mail. Personally, I won't be signing up to
be a plugin lead. I don't think that idea worked the last two or three
times we tried it.

2) I'm not sure the workflow/issue template/etc are correct for the
plugins. They should match MNG.

can any of this be automated?

- Brett

Jason van Zyl wrote:
 Hi,

 Can anyone who is taking charge of an m2 plugin assign themselves as
 the lead please. I will do the couple that I know but if folks can go
 in and set themselves as lead where appropriate that would really cut
 down on the mail I'm getting :-)


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Re: plugin project leads

2005-12-27 Thread Jason van Zyl

Brett Porter wrote:

I think we still have a lot to do on these projects.

1) turn off assign to lead by default. This doesn't fit with our process
and is the cause of all your mail. Personally, I won't be signing up to
be a plugin lead. I don't think that idea worked the last two or three
times we tried it.


Why do you think that is?

Vincent and Stephane signed up pretty quickly for their respective 
plug-ins. Someone needs to be the steward for a plug-in, maybe we need 
to flip over the lead more often or something.


I agree that it shouldn't assign by default, the default project setup 
goes to the lead.



2) I'm not sure the workflow/issue template/etc are correct for the
plugins. They should match MNG.


Vincent pointed out that they are not when I set them up.


can any of this be automated?


I think both can be updated automatically. I'll try it later on tonight.


- Brett

Jason van Zyl wrote:

Hi,

Can anyone who is taking charge of an m2 plugin assign themselves as
the lead please. I will do the couple that I know but if folks can go
in and set themselves as lead where appropriate that would really cut
down on the mail I'm getting :-)



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Re: plugin project leads

2005-12-27 Thread Jason van Zyl

Brett Porter wrote:

I think we still have a lot to do on these projects.

1) turn off assign to lead by default. This doesn't fit with our process
and is the cause of all your mail. Personally, I won't be signing up to
be a plugin lead. I don't think that idea worked the last two or three
times we tried it.

2) I'm not sure the workflow/issue template/etc are correct for the
plugins. They should match MNG.

can any of this be automated?


Automated. 1) and 2) done.

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