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From: | Jean Abou Samra |
Subject: | Re: Stepping down from Patch Meister role |
Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:10:01 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 |
Le 22/01/2022 à 20:31, Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit :
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 7:09 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote:Finding a non-developer to fill James's shoes sounds difficult. I would volunteer, but I still plan to contribute patches.git shortlog --author Lowe should be some indication that this is not a conflict of interest as such. It may end up a conflict of resources.Yes, my initial message wasn't entirely clear, it's of course possible to contribute patches while being "Patch Meister". The "impartiality" aspect is that you should try to apply the same standards to your own submissions as to all other patches. So, there's around one week left until the end of January and this thread has more or less died down, thus last call for volunteers.One thought: maybe we could rotate the patch meister between different volunteers? That would also help with the impartiality: if one is this week's patch meister, you could simply leave your own MRs alone.
Maybe James can comment here. Without ever having done these countdowns, my instinctive reaction is that it might work well, but it might also mean a bit more work at each countdown because you have to read the threads from the start if you haven't been following them on the previous countdown. Personally, while I'd be ready to do the countdowns if necessary, I'd prefer not to hold that responsibility on the long term because I tend to be somewhat too emotional with patches already. Also, one advantage of the countdown is that it enables someone without any technical experience to advance the project, thus freeing time for programmers. It has not been true with James that this has allowed someone to participate who would not have participated otherwise, given all his valuable documentation contributions, but there might be an opportunity to take now for finding someone who would not be in a position to immediately contribute in another way. Perhaps we could ask on the user list? Not sure how bug squad members were recruited when that existed, but lilypond-user would appear like the place where we have the best chances of finding new people ready to get involved. Jean
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