Hi As of 2022 July, Chromium has 4531 OWNERS files containing 6850 names. These include inactive owners, which are one of the sources of slow code review latency. One year ago, we cleaned up inactive owners <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/MpOgk56qKS0/m/HHy7G19oAwAJ> and removed ~500 inactive owners. I propose running the clean-up process again to keep the OWNERS files updated.
Specifically, a person is identified as an "inactive" owner iff: - The person didn't commit or review any CLs in the directory they own while there were 100+ CLs that touched the directory in the past 6 months (as of July 6, 2022). Last year, I gave the inactive owners an option to flip the decision manually to stay as an owner, but for this cycle, I'm planning to remove the inactive owners unconditionally. The rationale is 1) if the person made no contribution on a very active directory for 6 months, it will be reasonable to say that the person is inactive, and 2) if there is any special reason for it and the person needs to stay as an owner, the person can show evidence that they are meeting the owners expectations <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/code_reviews.md#expectations-of-owners> and be readded through the standard OWNERS nomination process. Specifically, people listed in this spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gJbXzTaoITvCDmQaqMmGCvfOngrcFtMPmMsGhHgEV_4/edit#gid=0> are identified as inactive owners and will be removed. I understand this is a tricky proposal. Having your name on OWNERS is an award for your previous amazing contributions, and I understand your feeling about your name being removed. However, I think it's important to keep the OWNERS files updated so that Chromium developers can find active owners and improve the code review latency. If you have any questions / concerns, please let me know. Thanks! -- Kentaro Hara, Tokyo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CABg10jyArLjDp0ixPu%2BCSZ9NVrn0M1GwNFiJqiPGRE1f0mrbfQ%40mail.gmail.com.
