Thanks for that background, Henry! That is actually useful for other unrelated thoughts I have had. We will make sure to keep this in mind.
On Monday, February 23, 2015, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, we need to be careful about this maintainers/owners or shepherds > business. > > Apache Spark got into some trouble from board when introducing this > concept. > > First of all, in the eyes of ASF, all (P)PMCs have equal rights and > responsibilities. > Meaning, no concept of owners or maintainers for particular parts that > could insinuate different hierarchy of approval for commits from one > to another PMCs/ committers. > > This needs to be thought out carefully to make sure that the > "shepherds" mainly just extra pairs of eyes to watch over new > contributions to make sure got proper reviews. > > - Henry > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Joshua Cohen <jco...@twopensource.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > +1, I was thinking about this over the weekend. > > > > Mesos has recently been discussing adding MAINTAINERS files across the > code > > to document who should be informed about changes within. I'm not sure > > Aurora is ready to go that far since generally it will either include all > > active committers or result in a subset of committers being on the hook > for > > all reviews from first time contributors. > > > > Establishing Shepherds seems like a good compromise. > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Zameer Manji <zma...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> With the increased interest in Aurora, the project has started to > receive > >> more contributions from non-committers. By default we do not populate > the > >> "People" line in the review, meaning there is no responsible person to > >> ensure we accept or reject contributions. > >> > >> I think we should establish Shepherds, who are responsible for dealing > with > >> reviews that don't have established reviewers. The responsibility could > be > >> limited to finding committers who are willing to review the code. > >> > >> What do people think about this idea? > >> > >> -- > >> Zameer Manji > >> > -- -=Bill
