[Reviewers] Changing the name of "reviewers" group and repository

[Martin von Zweigbergk]

"pusher" makes sense, but note that it (informally) means "a person who
sells illegal drugs" (also reminds me of
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117407/).

Does it make sense to call us "maintainers"?


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:21 PM Pierre-Yves David <
pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Good news everyone!
>
> Our reviewers groups start to be in good shape. We have:
>
> - a mailing list,
> - a repository waiting to be declared in us (don't use it yet),
>    https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/reviewers/
> - a list of who are in this group on the wiki,
>
>
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ReviewProcess#Push_access_to_the_Clowncopter
>
> The only significant blocker I can currently see is… the name:
> "reviewers". For a long time, the Mercurial project have been claiming
> that "Everyone can do review" and tried to encourage any contributor to
> jump in to help the review flow (and it is somewhat working from time to
> time). Calling the group of people with "push access" the "reviewers"
> send a bad message here. I think we should pick another name, Matt
> seemed to be sympathetic to the idea on IRC.
>
> - ReviewProcess page use "accepters"
> - discussion on IRC offered "pushers"
> - we also mention "reviewed", but it does not apply to people
> - your proposal here
>
> Thoughs? I personally think that "pushers" is a good pick. (with the
> only reservation that it might be confusing with the group of people
> with access to the publishing repository)
>
> Once we pick something, I suggest we:
> - rename "repo/reviewers/" to "repo/hg-NAME",
> - rename this mailing list to NAME
> - deprecate crew and the clowncopter and redirect them to "repo/reviewers/"
>
> In addition to that, either at the sprint, or during the first "steering
> committee" I'm hoping to define some written rules of to get new people
> in the group and also how inactive people get removed from it. But
> that's not blocking to move forward on this topic.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Pierre-Yves David
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