+1

This will certainly save PTLs time on sending inactive committers emails and 
spend more time on the project.

 

发件人: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] 代表 Yujun Zhang
发送时间: 2016年12月16日 10:40
收件人: Heather Kirksey; Raymond Paik
抄送: [email protected]
主题: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] committer list maintainance

 

+1 for the idea of automatic monitoring

--

Yujun

 

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:15 AM Heather Kirksey <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:


I like Morgan's suggestion -- the expectation of committers is that they're 
active and actively working the project; if they're not participating and not 
responding to emails, it's reasonable to remove them from the committer file. 
As folks say, this isn't a "punishment for bad faith" but a recognition that 
people move on from companies, roles, or projects. Having an automated way to 
handle this sounds reasonable…..

 

>From my perspective, our TSC isn't focusing on what it needs to focus on if 
>they're voting on the removal of every nonactive committer on every project. 
>That's also not entirely a scalable solution as we continue to grow as a 
>community. Empowering PTLs to manage their committers with the help of 
>automated tools seems like the right thing to do. 

 

This also relates to our community metrics discussion; if some projects 
experience much higher than average turnover in committers, it might be a 
reason to see what's going on and if the project needs help in some way. 
Focusing on how to enable and help projects be successful and removing 
obstacles if they're having issues is a good use of time; micro-managing 
committer lists is not. 

 

My $.02. 

 

Heather

 

 

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 11:46 AM, Raymond Paik [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>  wrote:

Please see an example from May of this year: 
https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/meetings/TSC#TSC-May17,2016 when the VSPERF PTL 
had several inactive committers who were non-responsive/not reachable.

 

If this is still too taxing for the PTLs, we can have a discussion in the TSC 
call....

 

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:33 AM, <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

in line with Yujun
no need to attend TSC to remove non active committers
usually we can do it through a patch of INFO file

the only case I can see a need to attend TSC is in case of conflict but I never 
saw that so far

during OpenStack Barcelona, we mentioned that it would be also nice to 
implement something to automatically remove 6 months non active contributors.
the idea is not to blame but to clean the repo and reflect the reality of the 
project activity
I agree that there are no commitments, people can move from one project to 
another
however it is better to have a good idea of the project activity and then 
keeping long list of non active contributors is misleading

So I would suggest to implement a job that will automatically remove a 
contributor Y of a project X if no activitiy has been reported since more than 
6 months
If the project has no commitor anymore or only the PTL or empty repo since x 
months => raise an alarm to TSC to clean also the project

/Morgan




Le 14/12/2016 à 08:31, joehuang a écrit :

+1000 for this "I never think it is a shame to leave a project,  since it is 
normal that people move on to a new target and didn't have time to say goodbye"

 

Best Regards

Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)


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From: Yujun Zhang [[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ]
Sent: 14 December 2016 15:10
To: joehuang; Raymond Paik
Cc: opnfv-tech-discuss
Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] committer list maintainance

I think there is no mandatory rule for PTL to attend TSC meeting in order to 
complete the removal process. At least, I never did that before. 

 

On my side, I have tried to contact several inactive committers to ask for 
their willingness and most of them replies politely to explain why. And we have 
a happy ending by putting them in retired list[1].

 

I did encounter the situation that losing contact to some committer. And we 
just ask TSC to approve the removal and that's it.

 

After all, I never think it is a shame to leave a project, since it is normal 
that people move on to a new target and didn't have time to say goodbye.

 

[1]: 
https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/qtip/Platform+Performance+Benchmarking#PlatformPerformanceBenchmarking-RetiredCommitters

 

 

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:17 PM joehuang <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

In OPNFV we "assume bad faith"? This is not a good assumption. 

 

The less meeting, the better, and usually a TSC meeting will be in the night or 
early morning for me to join. If even need to go to TSC meeting for 5 minutes 
for approval, I would prefer to retain the inactive committer there, just let 
it be.

 

 

Best Regards

Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)


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From: Raymond Paik [[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ]
Sent: 14 December 2016 13:33


To: joehuang
Cc: opnfv-tech-discuss
Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] committer list maintainance

Joe,  

 

On the first point, I'm not sure why you are saying you need to be committer to 
submit a patch in OPNFV.  There are plenty of regular contributors who submit 
code/patches to OPNFV.  Let me know if I'm not understanding your point.

 

On your second point, I can recall a few committers who voluntarily stepped 
down in the past few of months.  One of them was your Board member Wenjing who 
stepped down as a committer for QTIP.  One of the reasons why TSC approval is 
desired for revoking committer status is to prevent PTLs from potentially 
acting in bad faith.  I don't know if there are any PTLs in OPNFV who would act 
in bad faith, but it's good to have checks & balances.  Is it really that 
difficult to send an email to the TSC mailing list and then come to the TSC 
meeting for 5 minutes to get an approval?

 

Others in the community are welcome to weigh in on this...

 

Thanks, 

 

Ray

 

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:10 PM, joehuang <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Hello, Raymond, 

 

My suggestion is to update the TSC Charter. Compared to OpenStack core 
reviewer/contributor maintenance, often feel that OPNFV governance brings lots 
of inconvenience:

 

For example, if one wants to submit a patch, he/she usually has to be a 
committer in OPNFV before he submit a patch. But in OpenStack, anyone is able 
to submit a patch, and core reviewers will make sure this patch should be 
approved or not. If one is nominated as committer to be a core reviewer, and 
pass the voting, then any other core reviewer can add the new one to core 
reviewer list, but in OPNFV, you have to submit a patch or ask help from 
help-desk.

 

And another example, I seldom find that there is a stepping down notification 
in OPNFV mail-list from committer(yes, I saw some PTL stepping down 
notification), it seems not the fashion in OPNFV. But in OpenStack, a core 
reviewer is quite important role in code review, if he is not able to do the 
core reviewer responsibility, he will send a notification to the OpenStack 
mail-list.

 

I really don't know the reason why when we find some committer is inactive in 
the past 6 months, we need the approve from TSC?

 

Best Regards

Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)


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From: Raymond Paik [[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> ]
Sent: 14 December 2016 12:43
To: joehuang
Cc: opnfv-tech-discuss
Subject: Re: [opnfv-tech-discuss] committer list maintainance

Joe,  

 

If there's an inactive committer (for more than 6 months) and the PTL is not 
able to reach that committer for whatever reason, the PTL needs to make a 
request to the TSC to revoke the committer status.  The PTL should not do this 
unilaterally.  

 

Please see the 8th paragraph in the Section 8 of the TSC Charter 
(https://www.opnfv.org/developers/technical-project-governance/tsc-charter)...

 

Thanks, 

 

Ray 

 

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:18 PM, joehuang <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Hello, 

 

In each project's wiki page, we often list committers and contributors, as 
OPNFV's ongoing development, some new committers come, some committers grow 
other interesting and put less focus on the old project.

 

I have one suggestion for the maintenance on committer list: for those who have 
shifted interest, for example, not shown in the weekly meeting and mail-list 
discussion ( all these could be found in the log) in the past 6 months, but 
they forget to send a stepping down notification in the mail-list, PTL should 
be able to move the committer to the contributor list by default, and update 
the list in the git repository too.

 

It's not good idea ( not polite too :-) ) to send mail to ask "hey, would you 
continue to contribute in the project, if not, I'll remove you from the 
committer list".

 

Best Regards

Chaoyi Huang (joehuang)


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