dbus-sensors and EM maintainership

[Ren, Zhikui]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Tanous <edtanous at google.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 10:56 AM
> To: OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc at lists.ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Mauery, Vernon <vernon.mauery at intel.com>; Ren, Zhikui
> <zhikui.ren at intel.com>; Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au>; Jae Hyun Yoo
> <jae.hyun.yoo at linux.intel.com>
> Subject: dbus-sensors and EM maintainership
> 
> TL; DR I could use some help with reviewers and maintainers for dbus-sensors
> and entity-manager.
> 
> I originally took on maintenance of these two repos after the previous
> maintainer left on short notice, hoping that someone would step up to take
> ownership of the reviews and maintenance.  Several years later, and a few
> people have stepped up for portions of those codebases, for which I'm
> personally very grateful, but reviews are still a significant amount of time, and
> I'm struggling to keep up.
> 
> For EM, Vernon is still listed as a maintainer;  Is that something you're still
> interested in?  Is anyone else interested in taking a larger role there?  There's
> about a couple dozen systems supported from the EM repo today, so I'm hoping
> that there's some folks that have a vested interest in keeping it stable.
> 
> For DBus-sensors, there's already several maintainers that are fairly active.  If
> you guys could take the lead on reviews, testing, and merges going forward, I
> would appreciate it.  In the same question as EM above, is anyone else
> interested in taking a more active role in dbus-sensors?  I'm happy to help
> mentor folks if they don't feel like they have the technical acumen for it yet, and
> I'm willing to bet that the other maintainers would be willing to help as well.
> 
> If anyone relies on either of these repos and would like to officially pitch in,
> please open a review to add yourself to the OWNERS files of each.  Ideally I'd
> like to drop myself to only a reviewer and submitter on those components.
> 
I have been reviewing some of the EM patches and would like to play a bigger role.

> I've done my best to set both these repos down a good path by documenting as
> much as I could.  If anyone sees documentation that would help someone else
> to maintain these, I'm happy to write it.  As it stands, the repos have quite a bit
> more documentation than when I started, and have static analysis and CI testing
> now, so reviews are significantly easier than they once were.  Hopefully we can
> continue this trend.
>
THANK YOU!
 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ed