[pytest-dev] transferring ownership of pytest-ordering

[Frank Tobia]

Good point re: transfer ownership != maintenance handoff. I'll try to drum
up some number of maintainers.
At least one potential volunteer has reached out to me so far, so thanks
for the tweet :)

-Frank

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 6:41 PM Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
> Thanks for the interest in transferring pytest-ordering over to pytest-dev!
>
> Keep in mind though that the intent of moving plugins over to the
> pytest-dev organization is not to transfer maintenance responsibilities,
> but a way for plugins to get more visibility and prevent "plugin
> abandonment", where the sole maintainer is no longer responsive and the
> plugin is effectively dead because nobody else has commit/publishing
> rights.
>
> Having said that, before moving the plugin over to pytest-dev (which it
> would be welcome otherwise!) I suggest to find some co-maintainers first,
> so when the plugin gets transferred, it will have someone to fix the
> eventual bug or merge a PR.
>
> People have had great success getting interested co-maintainers by posting
> to mailing lists and Twitter, as well as asking if any of the previous
> contributors would be interested in being co-maintainers; it might be
> surprising how sometimes people step in.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions!
>
> Cheers,
> Bruno
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:45 PM Frank Tobia <frank.tobia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I wrote pytest-ordering but I haven't been doing a great job of
>> maintaining it. I'd like to transfer ownership to the pytest-dev group if
>> that's amenable. I think all the requirements for transferring are
>> fulfilled but I'd appreciate calling out if I missed something (
>> https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#submitting-plugins-to-pytest-dev
>> ).
>>
>> Here's the repo: https://github.com/ftobia/pytest-ordering
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -Frank
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