Enabling forward progress in subprojects in the face of unresponsive maintainers

[Andrew Jeffery]

Hi all,

I'm looking for feedback on a proposal to give OpenBMC a process for introducing new maintainers to subprojects in the event that all of the existing maintainers are unresponsive:

https://gerrit.openbmc.org/c/openbmc/docs/+/58653

In effect, this process lays down some expectations about how long patches can be left unreviewed, providing an upper bound for both contributors and maintainers. The process is only valid as a social contract if people are willing to back it so I'm looking for your input (yes you, reading this email). A +1 is perfectly good input, though if you feel inclined to give it a -1 I can only try to accommodate you and develop consensus if you tell me why :)

The proposal is motivated by issue #20 on the technical-oversight-forum repository, which asked the TOF members to consider how the project should deal with unresponsive maintainers:

https://github.com/openbmc/technical-oversight-forum/issues/20

Looking forward to your comments,

Andrew