On 4/28/22 22:08, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
"Simon" == Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> writes:
Simon> Sorry I meant email the project maintainers, if there is a submit Simon> request that isn't being acted on its there responsibility too look at Simon> and approve it. They also have the power to appoint a new maintainer if Simon> someone volunteers.
Simon> If you don't get a response from project maintainers then email here Simon> and we will appoint someone else to help.
What you are suggesting is a bandaid option, which is pointing to someone else or another group/project.
Well in an ideal world people would realize they no longer have time and would put there packages up for adoption that happens sometimes, often it doesn't. Regularly we don't realise until a package no longer builds. Project maintainers are designed to be the fallback for cases where package maintainers are away and to help when package maintainers disappear. I'm not really sure what we can do better here but if you have suggestions.
I suggest we need to find a better, sustainable approach which will help everyone from enduser to project maintainer to release team.
Out of curiosity how is it done in the corporate SuSE and if done how can we apply/adapt the approach to openSUSE ?
Sometimes well, sometimes badly but not really in a way we can adapt for openSUSE. For example if I was to leave the company my manager has a list of my packages and would get other people in the team to look after them until they hire a replacement, often in this period we will ping project maintainers with specific requests if they aren't being picked up by anyone then eventually a replacement person will be found and they will be assigned my packages (or they may swap some with others in the team). We also has a script that finds all SLE packages without a maintainer that usually have a lighter workload (not many security updates etc) and they rotate between a group of different people. This works for SUSE because we pay maintainers and can tell them that its there job to look after this group of packages for a week. That doesn't work for openSUSE where everyone is a volunteer and we can't really tell them to work on things. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B