[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-Maintainers] Maintainers 2.0 Proposal

[Amye Scavarda]

In light of community conversations, I've put some revisions on the
Maintainers changes, outlined in the hackmd pad:
https://hackmd.io/s/SkwiZd4qe

Feedback welcomed!

Note that the goals of this are to expand out our reach as a project
(Gluster.org) and make it easy to define who's a maintainer for what
feature.
I'll highlight the goals in the document here:

* Refine how we declare component owners in Gluster
* Create a deeper sense of ownership throughout the open source project
* Welcome more contibutors at a project impacting level

We've clarified what the levels of 'owners' and 'peers' are in terms of
responsibility, and we'll look to implement this in the 3.12 cycle.
Thanks!
-- amye


On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Raghavendra Gowdappa" <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
>> > To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>
>> > Cc: "Amar Tumballi" <atumball at redhat.com>, "GlusterFS Maintainers" <
>> maintainers at gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel"
>> > <gluster-devel at gluster.org>, "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 5:22:44 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Maintainers 2.0
>> Proposal
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>
>> > > To: "Michael Scherer" <mscherer at redhat.com>
>> > > Cc: "Amar Tumballi" <atumball at redhat.com>, "GlusterFS Maintainers"
>> > > <maintainers at gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel"
>> > > <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>> > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 7:12:32 PM
>> > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-Maintainers] [Gluster-devel] Maintainers 2.0
>> Proposal
>> > >
>> > > Do we also plan to publish similar guidelines for deciding on Project
>> > > maintainer?
>> >
>> > +1 for defining roles, responsibilities and qualifications of a Project
>> > manager.
>>
>> s/manager/maintainer/ :)
>>
>
>
> Agreed. There is a need to define the responsibilities of various roles -
> architects, project maintainers,  project and community leads. We have used
> some of these terms interchangeably in the past. Will add more details on
> these roles and provide more clarity.
>
>
>
>> >
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:24 AM, Michael Scherer <
>> mscherer at redhat.com >
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Le samedi 18 mars 2017 à 16:47 +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri a écrit
>> :
>> > > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Amar Tumballi <
>> atumball at redhat.com >
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I don't want to take the discussions in another direction, but
>> want
>> > > > > clarity on few things:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > 1. Does maintainers means they are only reviewing/ merging
>> patches?
>> > > > > 2. Should maintainers be responsible for answering ML / IRC
>> questions
>> > > > > (well, they should focus more on documentation IMO).
>> > > > > 3. Who's responsibility is it to keep the gluster.org webpage? I
>> > > > > personally feel the responsibility should be well defined.
>> > >
>> > > Theses point seems to have been overlooked (as no one answered), yet I
>> > > think they do matter if we want to expand the community besides
>> coders.
>> > >
>> > > And since one of the goal is to "Welcome more contibutors(sic) at a
>> > > project impacting level", I think we should be also speaking of
>> > > contributions besides code (ie, website, for example, documentation
>> for
>> > > another).
>> > >
>> > > While on it, I would like to see some points about:
>> > >
>> > > - ensure that someone is responsible for having the design discussion
>> in
>> > > the open
>> > > - ensure that each feature get proper testing when committed, and the
>> > > maintainers is responsible for making sure this happen
>> > > - ensure that each feature get documented when committed.
>> > >
>> > > If we think of contribution as a pipeline (kinda like the sales
>> funnel),
>> > > making sure there is documentation also mean people can use the
>> > > software, thus increasing the community, and so helping to recruit
>> > > people in a contributor pipeline.
>> > >
>> > > Proper testing means that it make refactoring easier, thus easing
>> > > contributions (ie, people can submit patches and see nothing break,
>> even
>> > > for new features), thus also making people likely more at ease to
>> submit
>> > > patches later.
>> > >
>> > > And making sure the design discussion occurs in the open is also more
>> > > welcoming to contributors, since they can see how we discuss, and
>> learn
>> > > from it.
>>
>
>
> Agree to all of these. The current guidelines for maintainers / owners
> lists most of these points as core responsibilities [1].
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>
>  [1] https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> Contributors-Guide/Guidelines-For-Maintainers/
>
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Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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