[parted-devel] Call for organization

[Otavio Salvador]

David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

> 4) Unit testing framework.

That could be move to stable-1.8.x too since it would ensure that we
don't introduze new bugs or forgot to fix the know ones. I vote to
have it on stable-1.8.x and mainly on 1.8.2 release.

> 1) Project Leader.  Pretty much self explanatory.  Responsible for
> overall project.  This person should be an experienced C coder as
> contribution to parted is expected as well as patch review.  This
> person should also have an interest in leading the project and
> handling those aspects.
>
> 2) Infrastructure Lead.  Responsible for all of the IT-type things for
> the project.  The revision control system, the mailing list, the web
> site, and other things.  This person should be an experienced sysadmin
> and knowledgeable with version control systems.
>
> 3) Maintainer.  A maintainer would be in charge of a specific
> branch. We have 1.8.x set up as our stable branch and then we have the
> edge branch which, I assume, we'll make releases off of for testing.
> The maintainer is also a contributor, but is the final person who
> wraps everything up for release and makes the release.
>
> 4) Contributor.  Everyone else who regularly contributes to the
> project, but is not one of the above positions is considered a
> contributor. Contributors can have specific focus areas or not.

I think is very difficult to name ourselfs for positions. You was one
of most active contributor for 1.8.0 and I think you could be the main
maintainer of the stable branch. For it, we would need a process that
could be used to propose changes for the branch and name someone else
if you're not available in meanwhile.

Leslie is one of more experienced people here about the code
itself. Nevertheless, he's not doing much "viewable" coding nowadays
and I don't know if he has the need time to lead the project. If he
has, I would like to have him as our lead.

Debarshi Ray is one of our most active contributors and he's doing a
great job. I would like to grant commit permission to him directly on
our GIT repository so he won't depend of us for trivial changes while
the bigger ones, as usual, should be discussed here before commited.

Anant did a lot of good work on past but I don't know how is his time
to work officially. He looks very interested on help us with the
infrastructure and that would be nice since it's a very important part
of project and we'll always need someone to install, test, improve and
configure something.

Currently I'm trying to work on most code as possible and try to make
things happen as fast as possible. I don't know what position would be
the right one to me but I think, for sure, I'll continue to help the
project. I'm also one of the group of people that has auth to release
parted, from GNU POV so I can help if someone is away for something
and we need to release on meanwhile.

I just don't want to get a too formal project otherwise we'll end
waiting too much by each other and it'll just make the project slower
and unmanageble.

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