Hi, 2017-05-24 18:04 GMT+02:00 Dave Cridland <d...@cridland.net>: > I consider any XEP Author unresponsive who fails to respond to > discussion on this list - the primary discussion venue of the XSF - > concerning the XEPs they are looking after for the XSF and the > community it serves. This is a fundamental requirement for being a XEP > author, and if any current authors are unwilling to subscribe to this > list and read it frequently, particularly threads concerning their own > XEPs, they should not be doing the job.
Unresponsiveness can be very annoying. I can personally recount several occasions where I requested minor changes or cleanups on experimental XEPs and even provided a PR but couldn't get the 'authors approval'. Unfortunately we don't have any hard set rules on how to deal with those situations. Even the process of providing a PR and getting 'author approval' is more of a convention than an actual rule. Correct me if I'm wrong but currently the only way to deal with 'an unresponsive' author is to defer the XEP with the 6 months of inactivity rule and create a new XEP. Which of course might not always be the best approach. If we as the XSF want to re-assign authors we should discuss and write down explicit rules for that process in XEP-0001. Side note: We also have *a lot* of XEPs which are inactive for way more than 6 month where there is no activity whatsoever. No questions, no discussions, no implementations. Are we just going to defer them? Or is the 6 month of inactivity timer only invoked after the first feedback? cheers Daniel _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
