💖 Molecule is looking for additional maintainers

[ssbarnea]

No, I am not leaving anywhere but I want to state that I am seriously looking into enlarging the pool of people that can perform maintenance on molecule itself.

If you are interested please let me know, the most important part is ability and willingness to review PRs and issues.

Ideally no change should be merged without a peer review and sadly during the last few months I was not able to fully respect this as I struggled to get reviews from others. An outcome is that I stopped working on any bugfixes and only reviewed code from others.

I am open to give review permissions quite soon but I also want to mention that I will start removing people with core rights that failed to performed any reviews for a longer period of time.

IMHO, a core developer has a moral duty of trying to review incoming changes. It is perfectly normal for them to remove themself from reviews where they do not know how to review but that does not mean they should be totally passive forever. By doing this we should also make it much easier to pick reviewers, as the dropdown list will have less "ghosts" ;)

Please state your interest here and do not forget that you can already perform reviews, even if you where not invited yet (remember to use the review button from file tab, just a PR comment does not appear as review).

[ghost]

I'd like to volunteer to help with reviewing PRs and issues. I don't have a pure developer background, but I know Python and Ansible and use Molecule almost daily.

[greg-hellings]

I would be happy to help with reviews and maintenance work. I'm in and out of Molecule on a daily basis as day.job is Molecule scenarios for Ansible collections

[alainchiasson]

I have been using Molecule on and off since the 2.x switch, and push it anywhere I can. I would love to help out.

[eighty20results]

I'd be very interested in helping out. Been developing with/for Python, Ansible and Molecule for a little while, for the computer manufacturer I work for and am doing daily code review in that context.

[SteveFroehlich]

Making an on ramp to being a maintainer might be helpful. For example just creating a new label, like Mozilla does with good first bug, could make it a lot easier for people to know where to start.

[ssbarnea]

I did not seen much success in using a good-first-bug label on other projects, most users lost interest before making a PR and the only result was cluttering the project with extra labels, not to mention that this prevented more senior people from fixing these issues.

If someone wants to help they have two options: randomly pick something and raise a PR or engaging on #ansible-molecule freenode channel. On irc it is much likely to give an instant answer on what can be done to help. Also the channel received notifications regarding any new open issue or pull-request.

[hluaces]

I could help if needed.

I don't have a full developer background, but I work with Ansible + Molecule daily and I've done a few custom modules for Ansible as well.

[ssbarnea]

@hluaces Thanks. Even watching what happens and reviewing changes can very extremely valuable. Some PRs may need local checkout and manual testing. It is a misconception that only python developers can help.

[hluaces]

@ssbarnea great, count me in.

[IlyesSemlali]

Hi @ssbarnea, I'm also volunteer, I can spend at least half an hour a day, taking issues and reviewing code. I've been working on a fix for the 2.20 version, but it was the time the 3.0 version got released.

[decentral1se]

Pop by on #ansible-molecule IRC channel @ freenode folks if you want to discuss / organise / whatever to get things done 🎆

[sobedrinker42]

I'll be happy to contribute. limited with python knowledge but work with molecule/ansible daily.

[ssbarnea]

Please note that we will perform some housekeeping activities and remove write access for those that were not active in a long period of time, like more than an year.

That is a security measure and be assured that we will be more than happy to see you back.

[jseguillon]

Hi there,
I would love to give help on maintaining this super piece of software. You can count on me.

[ssbarnea]

I also sent you an invite. After accepting you should be able to also move the plugin yourself.

[zhan9san]

Could you plz grant me 'add label' permissions for issue and pr?

Or do we need to check label of PR in CI jobs every time?

There is no default label added in new PR, but the CI will check it, which results in the failure of CI.

[ssbarnea]

I sent you an invite, check your email. You will also get write access, so feel free to review others changes.

[zhan9san]

Thanks. I am in.

[jseguillon]

Hey thanks I'm also in.