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Create maintainers document

Open ceilfors opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

The problems I'm seeing at the moment:

  • It is not immediately obvious who is the maintainers of this repository. We'd like this to be more visible to the community.
  • It is not clear who should merge the PR when a PR is merged by maintainers. It can be a frustrating experience for maintainers when a PR is not visited right away.

I quite like and influenced by Pieter Hintjens' C4, but I'm also conscious that the document might get too comprehensive for a still small community like laconia. For example, I love this idea from C4:

  • Maintainers SHOULD NOT merge their own patches except in exceptional cases, such as non-responsiveness from other Maintainers for an extended period (more than 1-2 days)
  • A new Contributor who makes a correct patch SHALL be invited to become a Maintainer

I personally don't have an extensive experience maintaining an open-source project, thoughts @hugosenari @geoffdutton @sakthivel-tw?

ceilfors avatar Jan 25 '20 11:01 ceilfors

I don't really have any experience either, but maintainers not merging their own patches makes sense to me.

I'd suggest we utilize the "request review" feature too.

geoffdutton avatar Jan 30 '20 16:01 geoffdutton