Re: employment related packager groups

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On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 01:50:04PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but I'm not sure I'm in favor of
> it. It certainly beats a company using a shared account against policy
> to allow for multiple maintainers. On the other hand, what are the
> practical use cases here? As Kevin and Zbigniew said in
> https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2929 , interest-based groups instead of
> employer-based groups seem like a better approach. Seems like the main
> place this would be used is when the org is the upstream project, and
> even then, an interest-based group open to the broader community seems
> more in the Fedora spirit. So to address the specific questions:

Yeah, I think some of these groups cross large areas of interest, so
it's hard to say 'xyz sig' because they are interested in a number of
disparite areas. 

> > Should such groups require FESCo approval?
> 
> Yes. These groups should be exceptional cases.
> 
> > If so, what would be requirements to approve/deny?
> 
> The group must represent something for with there is no broader
> community interest. (e.g. I'm interesting in maintaining packages
> produced by FunnelFiascCorp, but there's no broader FunnelFiasco SIG
> because it's not a broader thing like weather or program management)
> 
> > Should we require some documentation? ie, should the group have to make
> > a doc/wiki page explaining what it's for and how to reach group owners
> > in case of problems?
> 
> No, because it won't be maintained. (I'd like to say yes, but I know
> better) The fact that it's a group means we can see who the group
> members are and thus can figure out how to contact them if needed.

Yeah, thats definitely a good point. 

kevin

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