I think it's reasonable to leave enough flexibility in this system for current owners, or even previous owners, to reflect defacto owners in cases like the one Andrew describes. Noone will argue that Graydon, who wrote the cycle collector, wasn't the module owner at the time. We just hadn't made the module official at that point, and that's fairly normal mode of execution in practise per my memory. Whether this is necessary from the recognition point we could argue about, but IMO there's value in documenting previous owners whether they were official or not.
- jst On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Majken Connor <maj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not so sure. This is really a question of what's the purpose of this > module, and of the module system at all! > > My first question would be why use this as a mode of recognition for people > who weren't in modules? Do other recognition tools not exist? Are they > lacking? Which method should be improved to cover this use case? > > As discussed above, this module isn't meant to recognize people for good > work, only to acknowledge people who have been in the role. > > I don't imagine it's always been policy that anyone who contributed good > code became a peer or owner of a module. I think that if we want to do > this, we shouldn't treat it as the edge case. If we want to say that anyone > who met this standard should have (had) x role on the module, then let's > say that, and then make sure we have processes in place that review this > and ensure it happens. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote: > >> On 31/12/15 18:51, Andrew McCreight wrote: >> > 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. >> >> I'd say that's a good fix. It seems anachronistic to make people >> emeritus module owners for time when there wasn't a module (let's create >> one earlier next time!) but making them an emeritus peer gives them that >> "we appreciate your prior contributions" fistbump. >> >> Gerv >> >> _______________________________________________ >> governance mailing list >> governance@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance >> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
