Re: Giving up maintenership of my modules

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:17 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote:
> > Does Gnome keep track of which projects need developers,
> > documentators, maintainers, ...? I mean something similar to gnu's
> > savanah.
>
> Developers: Always needed.
> Documentation: e.g. https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ApplicationHelp
> Maintainers: Not that I am aware of.
...
> Thanks to Fred we do have https://people.gnome.org/~fpeters/health/
> which lists a "code activity score" (bus factor?) for each module - the
> lower the number, the better. But I assume those numbers don't
> automatically update and might be a bit dusty now.
...

The other side of it is knowing where maintainers are needed, and that
requires knowing where the priority bugs are.

> The question is who and how to turn that into something 'actionable'.
> As far as I know nobody is 'proactively' reaching out (where?) to
> maintainers on the leave (=making them realize) and finding potential
> folks to take over.
...

Seems like something the release team could be doing. It would require
that we find the right formula for attracting maintainers, of course.

Allan