Project Lead: django-configurations

[uhurusurfa]

Project lead request.

Although usser pauloxnet was supposed to have project lead status, he remains unable to do anything significant. Additionally he has stated that he is very busy and suggezsred I apply to be included on the team so that there is more than 1 person to manage the project

[jezdez]

From looking at the contribution history of @uhurusurfa (https://github.com/jazzband/django-configurations/pulls?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Apr+author%3Auhurusurfa+is%3Aclosed+), I don't see much to indicate that you have a proven track record to maintain the project and this request doesn't contain other references to convince me otherwise.

I would suggest for you to provide more PRs for review. Because project leads can essentially release new versions unsupervised, the bar is higher than for usual Jazzband members (who already have a wide range of permissions). So my vote at the moment is a no.

@pauloxnet @blueyed What do you think?

[uhurusurfa]

@jezdez - more than 2 weeks have passed and still no response from any team leads.
This project needs people who are actively using it and are interested in its upkeep.

Please let me know if you have a planb for this project or if you are willing to add me so we can get this project fully updated and keep contributors interested so that they continue to contribute by actually reviewing and processing theior PR's

[pauloxnet]

I would suggest for you to provide more PRs for review. Because project leads can essentially release new versions unsupervised, the bar is higher than for usual Jazzband members (who already have a wide range of permissions). So my vote at the moment is a no.

@pauloxnet @blueyed What do you think?

I agree with you Jannis.

Building an history of contributions it's not difficult, I did the same. Not all contributions require a maintainer role to be merged as in the coverage related PRs.

[uhurusurfa]

@pauloxnet - clearly you guys believe you are super experienced and know more than others who have been in the industry a lot longer time.
Sadly I completely disagree with your approach.
I will just fork the project and maintain my own version.

Good luck.

[uhurusurfa]

... and anyone trying to build up successful PR's will never get there because nobody is maintaining the django-configurations project.
It is quite short sighted to believe that a project maintainer must make a history of commits to the project they want to help ACTIVELY maintain. There is a lot more to having the skill to run a project than simply having made many little PR's to a single very very small project.

[webknjaz]

@uhurusurfa xz-utils is still fresh is people's memory. That malicious actor also really wanted to help actively maintain the project, right until they stuffed a backdoor into a few releases.

[uhurusurfa]

Clearly with 40 years in the industry I am a malicious actor.

[uhurusurfa]

Note that IF there are actually other trusted project leads on the project and they actually were doing their job as project leads and reviewing PR's then it should not matter if there is a malicious actor.