Expanding Fuchsia's open source model

Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by evil-olive on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:58PM (#25350530)

The OWNERS file is typically used, sometimes by automated tooling, to answer the "who should I ask to code review these changes?" question.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/c...

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creat...

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html

It's not meant to be a place for developer bios. If for no other reason than one developer could appear in many OWNERS files scattered throughout a repo, or in multiple repos, and keeping the bio current across all of them would be a nightmare.

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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by wmf on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:45PM (#25351115)

Let me add some context. I was looking at the governance links on the site and found https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/eng_co... which at the bottom simply says "The current members of the Fuchsia Eng Council are listed in this OWNERS file." I think it would improve the transparency/accountability of the project to have more than a list of email addresses here.

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Re:Expanding Fuchsia's open source model by asadlionpk on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:22AM (#25355896)

Probably not in the OWNERS file though, as it’s a machine-consumable file, heavy used inside and outside google for automation.

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