update governance page

[dhmlau]

Related to loopbackio/loopback-next#1673

• Update maintainer list
• Remove functional owner page and its references, inform users to use CODEOWNERS file to determine the maintainers for the repo

[bajtos]

Hmm, I think this is not true. AFAIK, we don't give npm publishing rights to maintainers from the community. I am proposing to change "Maintainers" to "Lead maintainers" in this sentence to avoid possible confusion.

[dhmlau]

You're right.
How to define/find out who are the "lead maintainers"? I'm thinking, as @jjtang1 suggested, whether it's better to have "core maintainers" (i.e. the core LB team) and "community maintainers"?

[bajtos]

Let's use the term "active maintainers" instead of "lead maintainers". We list community members in CODEOWNERS too.

[bajtos]

Let's add a new section "Alumni" towards the end and list people that are no longer actively working on the project there.

[dhmlau]

One concern of adding the alumni section is that there is probably a much bigger list (it's likely we'll miss out a few?) that we try to keep track of it through the CODEOWNERS file.
If we want to keep Ritchie and Simon on this page because they have significant contributions to LB, we can put it as "previous project architects"?

[bajtos]

I think we should either:

• be explicit about the fact that this list contains people on IBM payroll only
• or include all current maintainers

I feel the current proposal is making community contributors a kind of second-class maintainers.

It would be great if we could fetch an up-to-date list of people from somewhere else (or point readers to such source), e.g. GitHub's list of people in @strongloop/loopback-maintainers teams. Unfortunately, AFAICT, there is no such public view :(

[dhmlau]

thanks for pointing it out. I didn't realize it will cause this impression!

[dhmlau]

@bajtos, thanks for your feedback. I've made some changes based on your feedback.
I'd like to propose to have 2 categories of maintainers:

• core maintainers, i.e. LoopBack core team (the 7 of us)
• community maintainers, i.e. maintainers, regardless IBMers or not, who have made substantial amount of contributions in LB

I am a bit reluctant to create the alumni list because:

1. the alumni list is a much bigger list that we are trying to keep track in the CODEOWNERS file already.
2. while we value the contributions of the alumni maintainers had made, it may not be too relevant to community users who come to this page to find out the current active maintainers.

[bajtos]

LGTM.