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

[Vijay Bellur]

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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