On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have now implemented the idea of Owners Emeritus and Peers Emeritus
> for Mozilla modules. ("Emeritus" is a Latin word which is used in
> English to indicate people who no longer do a job, but are marked as
> having done the job in the past. It's an honourary position.)
>
This is sort of an edge case, but what about when a module is newer than
the code is represents? The specific example I am thinking of is the cycle
collector, which has only been a module for the last few years, but the
code has been around since 2007 or so, when Graydon Hoare landed the
initial version.
I suppose technically a module owner can name anybody an emeritus peer by
synthesizing it out of existing module owner operations (name person as
peer, remove them as peer, add them as emeritus peer), so maybe that's
sufficient for giving people in this particular situation some recognition.
Andrew
>
> We have implemented this in a fairly simple way - the module description
> template used on the Modules pages on the wiki now has the option to
> specify lists of owners emeritus (key: "ownersemeritus") and peers
> emeritus (key: "peersemeritus"), and these will then show up in the
> module description. See the example here:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Template:Module
>
> For verifiability and as a cross-check, only existing owners or
> already-listed emeritus owners should change these two lists. People
> should not add themselves.
>
> For owners emeritus, you may want to put the range of dates during which
> they were the owner; that is optional. It is probably better not to put
> contact information (mailto: link or Mozillians link) as you would with
> active owners and peers, to prevent owners emeritus and peers emeritus
> being bothered by people who don't understand the distinction.
>
> We hope this simple system will work OK; please report any problems with
> it to me.
>
> Module owners should feel free, either on their own initiative or when
> prompted by such a person, to add the previous owners and/or peers of
> their modules to the relevant module template. Remember that this is a
> factual status and is not conditional on performance. I've opened a pull
> request to add documentation for these new statuses to the Mozilla website:
>
> https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/3699/files
>
> Gerv
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