[Buildbot-devel] Future of MAINTAINERS.txt

[Jared Grubb]

I'm with both of you. 

Github merge requests and activity reports seem to be good "kudos" to encourage people to contribute.

Jared

> On Oct 5, 2014, at 15:42, William Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
> Dustin,
> 
> Sounds good to me. Plus git logs will show who most recently changed, or contributed the most to any given file so would provide guidance on who might know the file the best..
> 
> -Bill
> 
> On October 5, 2014 at 3:14:58 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell (dustin at buildbot.net <mailto:dustin at buildbot.net>) wrote:
> 
>> A few years ago, I embarked on a project to try to increase our 
>> contributor retention rate by recognizing contributors in 
>> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/blob/master/MAINTAINERS.txt 
>> 
>> The idea was that people could specialize in a small part of Buildbot, 
>> hopefully fixing more bugs in the areas I and other major contributors 
>> are less familiar with, and preventing bitrot. 
>> 
>> It hasn't really worked out that well -- it turns out that putting 
>> someone's name in a text file isn't quite the same as a spell of 
>> binding. So, I'd like to remove the file 
>> (http://trac.buildbot.net/ticket/2856). 
>> 
>> I'm open to feedback though -- has this been useful in a way I don't 
>> see? Do you have suggestions for other simple ways to improve 
>> retention? 
>> 
>> Dustin 
>> 
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