Though you didn't ask, it's a +1 from me. I think the current process is more gauged at weeding out charms that are abandoned by authors and doesn't have a declaration for how to handle the use case where an author explicitly wishes to drop maintainership.
Marco On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM Charles Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > We've recently encountered a scenario where our verbiage in the > unmaintained charm process is a tad confusing and limiting given the > scenario that a charm author requests to no longer maintain their charm. > > For reference, the document in question is located here: > https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/charm-unmaintained-process > > Given the scenario that a charm author wishes to maintain their charm and > informs ~charmers they will no longer be developing, patching, or updating > - essentially abandoned the charm - the verbiage states: > > > > 1. > > File a bug against charm saying “Maintainer needed” > 2. > > Is charm broken? > 1. > > Follow “Workflow for identifying and triaging unmaintained charms” > process > > > This particular process includes a 30 day wait period to take *any* action > on the charm. What we would like to propose is: > > A bug be filed for "Maintainer Needed", the charm be moved to > ~unmaintained-charms, and a call to arms be issued to the list for a new > maintainer. Thus not leaving a potentially broken charm in the charm-store > for an extended time-wait scenario, allowing other potential consumers to > encounter the unmaintained, and potentially broken charm. > > If someone steps into the role of maintainership, it's a simple process to > put the charm back in the store under the new maintainer. > > If you have any dispute with this potential change, please respond to this > thread. No verbal dispute will constitute acceptance, and we will amend > during the Charmer Summit starting Sept 17th. > > Thanks > > Charles Butler <[email protected]> - Juju Charmer > Come see the future of datacenter orchestration: http://jujucharms.com > -- > Juju mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >
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