[Process] Proposal to revise unmaintained charms workflow

[Marco Ceppi]

Though you didn't ask, it's a +1 from me. I think the current process is
more gauged at weeding out charms that are abandoned by authors and doesn't
have a declaration for how to handle the use case where an author
explicitly wishes to drop maintainership.

Marco

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM Charles Butler <charles.butler at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We've recently encountered a scenario where our verbiage in the
> unmaintained charm process is a tad confusing and limiting given the
> scenario that a charm author requests to no longer maintain their charm.
>
> For reference, the document in question is located here:
> https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/charm-unmaintained-process
>
> Given the scenario that a charm author wishes to maintain their charm and
> informs ~charmers they will no longer be developing, patching, or updating
> - essentially abandoned the charm - the verbiage states:
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>    File a bug against charm saying “Maintainer needed”
>    2.
>
>    Is charm broken?
>    1.
>
>       Follow “Workflow for identifying and triaging unmaintained charms”
>       process
>
>
> This particular process includes a 30 day wait period to take *any* action
> on the charm. What we would like to propose is:
>
> A bug be filed for "Maintainer Needed", the charm be moved to
> ~unmaintained-charms, and a call to arms be issued to the list for a new
> maintainer. Thus not leaving a potentially broken charm in the charm-store
> for an extended time-wait scenario, allowing other potential consumers to
> encounter the unmaintained, and potentially broken charm.
>
> If someone steps into the role of maintainership, it's a simple process to
> put the charm back in the store under the new maintainer.
>
> If you have any dispute with this potential change, please respond to this
> thread. No verbal dispute will constitute acceptance, and we will amend
> during the Charmer Summit starting Sept 17th.
>
> Thanks
>
> Charles Butler <charles.butler at canonical.com> - Juju Charmer
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