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Tweak trainee maintainer process

Michael Kozono requested to merge mk/add-to-trainee-maintainer-process into master

Opened for discussion.

Proposal

  • No buddy maintainers.
  • Trainees post each review in their trainee issue using a template.
  • The maintainers who reviewed the same MR are prompted by the template to give feedback: Please add feedback, and compare this review to the average maintainer review.

Trainees:

  • get more regular feedback from multiple maintainers.
  • get directed feedback due to the prompt
    • Is this a good idea? If the trainee isn't there yet, it may take time, which could be quite painful after some months. I tried to leave enough room to not force a hard "No, this review is not up-to maintainer level" kind of response.

All maintainers:

  • are invested in the process of training new maintainers.
  • get manageable chunks of work.
  • already have context during their MR review evaluation.
  • can make a better overall judgement on the maintainer proposal MR.

In general, this process should result in a trainee issue with everything needed to make a decision, and no pile of work anywhere.

Proposal 2

Same as above but keep buddies for discussing process and progress. This may be more supportive.

Edited by Michael Kozono

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