Re: Stepping down from Patch Meister role

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/01/2022 à 11:06, James a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am going to stop doing the Patch countdown at the end of this month.
>
> I'll continue for the next few weeks, but my last countdown will be 
> whatever the last date in January ends up being.
>
> Thanks for your understanding.


You definitely deserve a ton of thanks. I was already
amazed at your perseverance and regularity in this
task, and I hadn't realized you had been doing it for
so long. Thank you for keeping the project running
during all these years.



> > As said before off-list, thanks a lot for all the work you've been
> > doing. I had a look at the mailing list archives and it appears you
> > started doing the countdowns in February 2013, almost nine years ago.
> > Your contributions reach back further than that (including testing of
> > patches, not sure) and in any case that's an incredible time span!
> >
> > This also means we need to do at least one of two things:
> > a) find a new person to take on the Patch Meister role and continue
> > doing the countdowns,
> > b) think about and agree on a "new" process to decide when patches can
> > be pushed / merged.
> >
> > I personally like the countdown process for a number of reasons (as a
> > contributor, it's nice to have a human "on the other side", and for
> > reviewers it's relieving to have some amount of grace period). In the
> > event that we have neither a) nor b) by the end of January, I can offer
> > to take the role temporarily to "keep things going". That said, I'm
> > definitely not a good fit in the longer term because I want to stay a
> > developer and that conflicts both time-wise and with respect to
> > impartiality.


I also appreciate the current process. It ensures
contributions from new contributors without commit
access are not forgotten about and sets clear
expectations for the moment at which a patch can
be merged. If we can find another person for it,
that would be ideal in my view.

Best,
Jean