The Slack channel: #maintainers-pilot.
An initial gathering of maintainers will be planned for sometime in August 2022. This should include all the maintainers named in the pilot but will also be open to any other explicitly named maintainers.
A full set of quality standards are still in development, but as we add them, we are adding ADRs to OEP-55.
How-Tos for Phase 1 work are documented here.
We’re currently taking a multi-phase approach, but these are some overall outcomes from the full process:
The process for finding new maintainers is clear and documented.
A documented standard exists for basic maintainership artifacts
Communication gaps and missing rituals are identified and implemented
We are ready to add more repos to the official list of maintained repositories
This is the approved text from OEP-55 describing our intentions for the bootstrapping process:
In order to ensure an orderly roll-out of the formal maintainer role, existing 2U staff in the owner role will transition into the role of maintainer for the components that they own.
Community members who are acting in informal maintainer roles will also be asked to become named maintainers.
A list of all components and their maintainers will be created and published, including a list of the components without a maintainer.
An asynchronous channel will be available for all maintainers to communicate and collaborate; initially this will be a Slack channel.
Standards for measuring the quality of repositories will be rolled out across all repositories. These standards can benefit from work done at edX to measure repository health.