Project Lead: Watson

[jmaupetit]

Project lead request

👋 hi there!

I am the core maintainer of the TailorDev/Watson project. We decided to switch to Jazzband to ease new contributors on-boarding as I did not have much time to actively maintain the project.

To give it back to the community, I transferred its ownership to JazzBand yesterday but lost maintainer permissions on the repository. Can I have such permissions back until we constitute an active maintainers team?

[jezdez]

I added you as project lead for now, but usually, we don't provide maintainer permissions, is there anything you need specifically?

[jmaupetit]

I think we'll need to update the project's URL once the github page is restored:

And probably more things I cannot see right now as I didn't finished the migration process listed in jazzband/Watson#509

[jmaupetit]

And thank you for taking the time to update my role @jezdez 🫶

[oriongonza]

I would strongly recommend you giving permission to merge to someone else too since @jmaupetit doesn't take (or have) the time to participate in the discussions in a timely manner as expected from a maintainer as he hasn't done anything in the repository in the past month.

@vladh seems to be more keen.

[jmaupetit]

To clarify the situation: my issue is that no legacy contributor is willing to take part of the governance. Only new comers that did not contribute to the project in the past are asking for maintainer permissions. I'm uncomfortable with this. I should maybe accept it and give it up. 🤷

[b12f]

Hello everyone,

@teutat3s and myself (we created the https://github.com/pub-solar/Watson fork) are willing to do basic maintenance in this repository. We are not legacy contributors to watson however, so I totally understand @jmaupetit s' caution. I recommend everyone vets the history of any maintainers before you install their software on your machine, especiallly with forks, so do the same with us.

Otherwise, we'll just maintain our fork, with a probable rename in the future so we can distribute it in package managers without naming collisions. Thanks a bunch @jmaupetit for the work both on the software and on trying to do a proper handover.

[jmaupetit]

Hi @jezdez I've assigned you to review this PR and also this one to push Watson back on track, but I'm not sure that you will have time for this!

Can I have permission to auto-validate my PRs as I'm the only maintainer/lead for now?

After this PR I need to:

1. Fix Python 3.14 compatibility
2. Fix broken tests
3. Integrate Black + Ruff linters
4. Add github actions for tests, linters and matrix compatibility
5. Fix the documentation
6. Release a v3.0.0

Also I would like to rename the master branch to main 😉

Looks like the situation is blocked as is.

[jezdez]

@jmaupetit just reviewed those two PRs, but pre-commit is blocking this. I'll close this issue for now, since it seems like the original request was closed. Let's discuss more in jazzband/Watson#509