Maintainers wanted: SaltStack

[mbbroberg]

The current maintainer team is in need of a friend to lead on SaltStack efforts. In particular:

• Lead on SaltStack matters, helping Sensu users get the best experience
• Provide feedback on strategy, especially on the right repo plan (read more: Best direction for SaltStack Formulas and clarifying Maintainers sensu/sensu-salt#2)
• Follow activity on the SaltStack repo
• Participate in the #saltstack channel on Community Slack

Maintainers are asked to help by:

• Weighing in on key initiatives
• Participation on issues/pull requests
• Providing feedback to guidelines
• Being a leader: raising up important opportunities, prioritize less important ones
• Sharing your expertise
• Hanging out in our Community Slack

Maintainers are NOT expected to be:

• Sensu Experts: not everyone knows everything about Sensu. You will definitely learn by volunteering 😄
• Open Source experts: we're all learning by doing here and will mentor you on git/GitHub
• On call or under a SLA: these are volunteer roles. Communication when you're too busy to participate is sincerely appreciated, but daily participation is not an expectation
• Participate forever: we love when people have the time to participate and understand when you no longer have that time. Give back while you can and rest assured that we'll take it back over when you get busy

Maintainers get:

• Unique opportunities to influence the project
• Exclusive channels of communication to grow your Sensu expertise
• Access to paid tools as needed for us to succeed as maintainers
• An expert partner in community management (from code management to people management)
• Mentorship, as requested, in public speaking, blogging, and social media
• Priority opportunities to speak, blog and participate with Sensu Inc
• Tons of guidelines that will make your work easier
• To hangout with a lovely bunch of peers who are sharing in the #monitoringlove ✌

We would love at least one, but could be as many skilled community members as they are available. Please raise your hand here or mention others you think would be great contributors!

[absolutejam]

I'd be willing to help out where possible as I'm using SaltStack with Sensu for deployment and now also dabbling in auto-remediation with my SaltStack handler. I'm working on getting my stuff a bit more up-to-code with regular SaltStack formulas so that it's easier to share.

Not sure I'd be up to maintainer status due to experience and time, but I'm usually available with an @ mention or on Slack :)

[mbbroberg]

we love it! I think we'll continue to see if we can land a lead for SaltStack, and they'll definitely rely on you to help them out, especially since you've volunteered (with some prompting 😉) on other parts of the ecosystem. 🙌

[perlchild]

I can join in, I'm preparing a placeholder for when sensu 2.0 lands, and we can see what I can do with a spike/POC

[mbbroberg]

@perlchild that sounds great! @majormoses and I are working to onboard you as soon as we can! You'll see invites coming soon (and we'll close this issue once you're in 💪)

[wattwood]

This hasn't seen much in a year. Is this still a need? I'm SaltStack certified and am working on a formula now for SaltStack Go.

[majormoses]

I believe so let me reach out to some folks and work on getting the ball rolling.

[majormoses]

I now have access to help out with this project and will reach out to setup a conversation about getting started.

[agm650]

Hello, Im also available to help on saltstack for Go.

[majormoses]

I'm happy to add you as a maintainer once you're contributing to the ecosystem. I am hesitant to keep adding "maintainers" who are not pushing or reviewing code. If you need some help to get going you can reach out to me over slack or email.

I appreciate your willingness to help!