git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: the latter half of october, the maintainer goes offline

From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2024, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID
<Zv7aLRXwt9cfqW58@nand.local>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqh69thzd0.fsf@gitster.g>
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 10:26:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Show 12 quoted lines
> It can be somebody stepping up and say "ok, I'll self nominate and
> run the project as the interim maintainer, just like it was done in
> the past years", or "let's do something differently, how about
> everybody throws a merge request to this mob repository, use this
> (possibly different) review procedure, and give back the tip of
> 'master' when Junio returns", or "OK, we'll discuss and exchange
> patches for these two weeks among ourselves and we can cope without
> a central meeting place".
>
> IOW, I am interested to see if the community comes up with a
> day-to-day project structure that may be better for the contributors
> than what I have dictated in the past during my vacation time.

Interesting. If list participants would prefer to use the same structure as when you're not on vacation, I'm happy to shuffle the patches and send regular "What's cooking" reports for those couple of weeks.

I guess that amounts to the "I'll self nominate and run the project as interim maintainer" option you mentioned above :-).

Thanks, Taylor

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Patrick Steinhardt
Message 2 of 13 in “the latter half of october, the maintainer goes offline”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2024
  2. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2024
  3. Patrick SteinhardtOct 4, 2024
  4. shejialuoOct 4, 2024
  5. shejialuoOct 4, 2024
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2024
  7. Taylor BlauOct 4, 2024
  8. Patrick SteinhardtOct 7, 2024
  9. Taylor BlauOct 7, 2024
  10. Patrick SteinhardtOct 7, 2024
  11. Taylor BlauOct 4, 2024
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2024
  13. Patrick SteinhardtOct 9, 2024

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.