4 Nov
2017
4 Nov
'17
5:31 p.m.
Edward Diener wrote:
On the contrary. A library should always be placed in CMT first before being given to a new maintainer. Once a person emerges whose pull requests to the library demonstrate ability and long-term willingness to maintain it, the library may be handed over to him. Not before.
The CMT's primary task should be to merge pull requests. Not that much manpower is required.
The manpower involves having a member of the CMT group understand code in nn different libraries in order to decide if a merge request is valid or not. It is very easy to say "just merge code" but the reality is much different.
I know what it involves. None of that invalidates any of what I said.