🔧 Repository: Expand governance on community-plugins maintainers

04kash commented 1 month ago

📜 Description

As discussed in the SIG, we need explicit guidelines on how to transition from a plugin owner to a plugins maintainer within the community-plugins repository.

Here are some suggested criteria to include:

Must be an approved plugin owner.
Provide links to examples of PR reviews from other workspaces and codeowners.
Showcase links to work done that helps maintain or improve workflows and tooling.

Thoughts?

👍 Expected behavior

We have explicit guidelines on how to transition from a plugin owner to a plugins maintainer within the community-plugins repository

👎 Current Behavior

We don't have explicit guidelines on how to transition from a plugin owner to a plugins maintainer within the community-plugins repository

👟 Reproduction steps

NA

📃 Provide the context for the Bug.

No response

👀 Have you spent some time to check if this bug has been raised before?

[X] I checked and didn't find similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

[X] I have read the Code of Conduct

Are you willing to submit PR?

Yes I am willing to submit a PR!

BethGriggs commented 1 month ago

One final criteria could be 'Additional member approved by existing community plugins maintainers'

awanlin commented 3 weeks ago

Being active in the Backstage repo itself as well as running a Backstage instance at an Organization would be really helpful to have. I would personally weigh these things higher than what is noted in this issue description.

BethGriggs commented 1 week ago

Being active in the Backstage repo itself as well as running a Backstage instance at an Organization would be really helpful to have. I would personally weigh these things higher than what is noted in this issue description.

I agree with those as supporting contributions as they're useful for general context. But, I would imagine contributing to the backstage/backstage repository itself should be a pathway to backstage/backstage core maintainership. Exhaustive contributions to backstage/community-plugins repository alone should be enough for someone to be a Community Plugins area maintainer. As the project is grows, I don't think it'll be reasonable to expect contributors to be across all spaces.

vinzscam commented 6 days ago

We already have some docs here: https://github.com/backstage/community/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#project-area-maintainer Happy to iterate if there is anything that can be improved

backstage / community-plugins