Wanted: Maintainers

If we want keep Rancher OS alive by the community we will need 5-10 maintainers (I can be one of those but I don't want to be only one).

Most important task where we need maintainers is to have some one review, comment and approve pull requests when we get them. Anyone who is able to review code and is willing to sacrifice some of their time for better good can be maintainer.

We will also need agree pull request approval practice. My proposal is that anyone can create pull request and all pull requests much be reviewed by at least one maintainer and it must be different person than who created pull request (simple peer review practice to avoid human errors).

So anyone who is interest to be maintainer to this project please leave a comment.

[tomaswarynyca]

Hello, in view of the fact that RancherOS is going to be discontinued, I think the idea of creating a community version of it is excellent. I would like to be able to help with the project, I don't have much experience but I am willing to learn to improve the OS.
Do you already have an organized means of communication for the organization of the collaborators?

[olljanat]

@tomaswarynyca you are very welcome 👍

Do you already have an organized means of communication for the organization of the collaborators?

Not yet but you can reach me on Rancher Slack with same nick.

Anyway, can you start by sharing your use case(s) on #6
and probably you want also check discussion about kernel versions on #5

[ToeiRei]

count me in on giving you a hand as much as my time allows

[olljanat]

@tomaswarynyca @ToeiRei FYI, I did sent both of you now collaborator invitations from all Burmilla repos.

There is also now branch policy which require pull requests to be used to update master branch on all repos except os and os-services (because on those I'm actively working on now). I will add branch policy to those too after I got v1.9.0-rc1 ready.

[tomaswarynyca]

@olljanat Great! Thank you for your confidence, I have finished accepting all applications.

[olljanat]

FYI. I added now branch policy to:

• https://github.com/burmilla/os/tree/v1.9.x
  • Branch which used to release v1.9.x versions and where each version code will be tagged.
• https://github.com/burmilla/os-services/tree/v1.9.0
  • Created based on v1.9.0-rc1 branch.
• https://github.com/burmilla/releases/tree/v1.9.x
  • Branch which we will which v1.9.x versions are using to check updates.

Policy will require changes to those branches going through pull request and someone else than he who created pull request to review and approve it (standard practice to avoid human errors).

[olljanat]

@tomaswarynyca @ToeiRei I noticed that it would be better that "burmilla" is GitHub organization than user account so I converted to it to like that based on https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/converting-a-user-into-an-organization now and invited both of you to be owners on it with me so you will get same access rights than I have.

Main purpose of that is to make sure that BurmillaOS can be maintained as long than at least one of us is able to participate.

[XiaodongLoong]

Hello, I am from Loongson (R & D CPU/mips64le), I wanna in.

[olljanat]

@XiaodongLoong Hi. I created feature request item to #23 with some basic infos. Feel free to add more information about that platform to there. Also note that you can reach us on Discord #10 (comment)

[KieraKujisawa]

@olljanat, @ToeiRei I would be happy to help support Burmilla. I'm glad someone decided to support a fork of RancherOS. I'm a big fan of the low resource usage of this style and believe docker will still be around for a long time.

[olljanat]

@KebinuChiousu welcome, plz share your use case(s) on #6
We are just trying to finalize first release version and I'm trying to verify all known use cases on it.