[OOTB-hive] Volunteers wanted - Maintaining Community Support Tools

[Axel Faust]

Hi all,

I wanted to keep the initial mail short since I already have a tendency to
write longer mails than most people, so didn't include the tasks of a
maintainer in the hope there is a common understanding. Also, I didn't want
to scare anyone with my personal hopes / aspirations for community
ownership - it is a process that the team of core maintainers for this
project would pioneer and in some regards have to figure out how they can
handle it in a sensible way.

With that in mind: personally, I would expect / like the team of core
maintainers to:

- review / respond to issues, enhancement requests or PRs in a somewhat
timely manner (open source project => no SLO but I would like to aim for
7-14 day limit for first reply)
- reproduce issues / help reporters work around them and plan long term
resolution (again, no SLO but it would be great if identified issues are
either resolved or at least provided with a workaround in 1-3 months)
- plan, assign, perform and track implementation tasks
-- implementation may be done by others but core maintainers review /
decide what is merged into main line
-- localisation (as brought up by Angel and Douglas) would be an
implementation task to be planned/assigned everytime a new feature is added
with basic English I18n
-- potentially recruit / support other community members that want to
collaborate to lighten the load / share responsibilities
- test / verify compatibility with new Alfresco releases, and plan any
actions needed to achieve compatibility (again, no SLO but I would like to
aim for 3-6 month limit for compatibility with new version unless major
obstacles are found - for Community Support Tools I will check Alfresco 5.2
compatibility over the holiday season and expect at most 1-2 hours effort)
- generally be first contact for community members that have questions
about the addon

I hope that doesn't scare too many of you...

Regards
Axel

On 21 December 2016 at 06:41, Bindu Wavell <bindu at wavell.net> wrote:

> Hi Axel,
>
> What would you expect from a maintainer of this add-on? I'm very
> interested in this work :) I'd like to see it owned by the community and I
> think this idea of having multiple maintainers makes a lot of sense.
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Axel Faust <axel.faust.g at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yes, for the time being this is for this particular project. I do consider
> this a prototype / test bed though for when we may discuss / consider other
> projects and/or formalising requirements.
>
> On 20 December 2016 at 08:46, Lanre Abiwon <el_gigantes at hotmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Just to be clear, you’re asking for a minimum of 3 core maintainers for
> the support tools project.
> Not as the required minimum to host a project under the OOTBee?
> I agree with Martin if it turns out to be the latter. If it is the former
> then 3 is a good start
> and perhaps aspire to add more.
>
>
> Lanre Abiwon
> _________________________________________
> If you do things right, people won’t know that you’ve done anything at all.
>
>
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