Open for Adoption

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Open for Adoption

jekkel opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Kiwigrid Teams use Helm since a pretty long time and this plugin has been a important piece for all services built with Maven. That being said, we're moving away from Helm so continuously investing in the maintenance and development of Helm related open source can't be afforded forever.

So with this issue I'd like to inform that we're searching for a new owner and home of this project. If you're interested please comment with some details how you'd like to shape the future of the plugin and how you propose the move to be performed.

If we won't find a new home we're gonna archive the repository at some point in time.

Kirill Nazarov · Answer 1 · Mon Jan 03 2022 22:50:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can it happen so that key maintainers/owners(let's say @jekkel and @axdotl) will review PRs(at least in terms of code quality) and perform releases once feature merged, while community(contributors) will act as main developers for plugin?
It will give some sort of mixed/shared responsibility. 😉

Kirill Nazarov · Answer 2 · Tue Jan 04 2022 03:58:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, anyway.
I can become new owner for this repo...

My plan:

Together with @jekkel and @axdotl migrate CI/CD on GitHub Actions in order to unlink from KiwiGrid infra(if there is some). I can take care of it.
Create development manifest. Store it in repo. Considering to have a short call to discuss key agreements.
Make list of maintainers/contributors in pom.xml up-to-date.
Smth else

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 3 · Tue Jan 04 2022 04:30:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well, anyway. I can become new owner for this repo...

My plan:

* Together with @jekkel and @axdotl migrate CI/CD on GitHub Actions in order to unlink from KiwiGrid infra(if there is some). I can take care of it.

AFAIK it's built on travis CI, not our infra. So that might be safe already.

* Create development manifest. Store it in repo. Considering to have a short call to discuss key agreements.

* Make list of maintainers/contributors in `pom.xml` up-to-date.

* _Smth else_

My 2 ct on top:

let's remove kiwigrid from the maven groupID and from the java packages
let's release a last version with unchanged coordinates pointing users to the new coordinates via a warning log
migrate the repository ownership

That being said I wonder whether you got some supporters for being the maintainer...? Did you already contribute anything? How about pushing some PRs or issues forward as a "proof of work"?

@axdotl Any opinion from you here?

Kirill Nazarov · Answer 4 · Tue Jan 04 2022 18:46:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Any ideas reg new groupId?

Kirill Nazarov · Answer 5 · Tue Jan 04 2022 18:50:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did you already contribute anything? How about pushing some PRs or issues forward as a "proof of work"?

For now I've raised 3 PRs:

Two of them my own initiative.
One based on opened issue.

That being said I wonder whether you got some supporters for being the maintainer...?

That is the harderst part I guess...

Kirill Nazarov · Answer 6 · Tue Jan 04 2022 18:51:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

AFAIK it's built on travis CI, not our infra. So that might be safe already.

I'm whishing to have build on PRs. And view build result right in SCM. GitHub Actions allow to do that.

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 7 · Tue Jan 04 2022 22:43:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I filed a ticket for that one: #139

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 8 · Wed Jan 05 2022 16:44:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Any ideas reg new groupId?

Depends... Do you want to you move the project to your personal account or to an organizational account? I think the hosting entity is usually part of the group id and package name then.

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 9 · Fri Jan 07 2022 19:47:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@jschwarze @fabian-schlegel How about your point of view? You've been contributing a lot and might want to take over the project as well?

fabian-schlegel · Answer 10 · Sat Jan 15 2022 00:11:58 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'd like to propose to move the repository together with the corresponding grade plugin to this project: https://github.com/kokuwaio/

For one reason, some of the contributors are also active there, but also the quite popular "helm-charts" project, which is somehow related, lives there.

After moving the projects I can adjust the Maven coordinates and parent POM and even create a release workflow.

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 11 · Mon Jan 17 2022 17:09:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

That's a great idea! Please consider inviting @nazarovkv as a contributer or maintainer there.

In order to transfer the ownership you need to grant me (temporary) repository creation rights within kokuwa.io org. Note that there's a travis webhook which is going to be transferred as well.

Jörg Eichhorn · Answer 12 · Mon Jan 17 2022 18:37:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Welcome kokuwa.io :)

@fabian-schlegel Thanks to you and your fellows for stepping in, I'm looking forward to contribute 👍

(I think you could relate a PR for renaming everything to this ticket or close it and create a new one)