Add Rahul Chanila as frontend maintainer
Manager Justification
It's hard to specify hard requirements for becoming a maintainer, which is why the documentation consists of flexible guidelines. Reviewers are encouraged to think of their eligibility for maintainership in the terms of "I could be ready at any time to be a maintainer as long as it is justified".
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The MRs reviewed by the candidate consistently make it through maintainer review without significant additionally required changes. -
The MRs authored by the candidate consistently make it through reviewer and maintainer review without significant required changes.
...justification...
MRs reviewed
Has reviewed nearly 190 MRs
Few recent reviews:
- Identified bug gitlab-org/gitlab!108655 (comment 1240172353), gitlab-org/gitlab!119473 (comment 1379339283)
- Input related to accessibility gitlab-org/gitlab!106444 (comment 1244222733)
- Found long text bug gitlab-org/gitlab!109043 (comment 1246652006) gitlab-org/gitlab!109260 (comment 1246867696) twice - Issue gitlab-org/gitlab#388852 (closed)
- Suggested adding test coverage gitlab-org/gitlab!109043 (comment 1245218207) gitlab-org/gitlab!96429 (comment 1097962193)
- suggested making changes in
gitlab-ui
gitlab-org/gitlab!93687 (comment 1069984963) - suggested prefers reduced motion gitlab-org/gitlab!115923 (comment 1332348744)
- Accessibility while triggering tooltip gitlab-org/gitlab!119542 (comment 1410146693)
- suggested refactor gitlab-org/gitlab!119542 (comment 1381485717)
- noticed error in graphql mock data and suggested fix gitlab-org/gitlab!96429 (comment 1097962790)
Some more feedback from the trainee maintainer issue when it was relevant.
MRs authored
- Has authored nearly 90 MRs,
- Sole frontend engineer in the Package stage in the past year.
Before Merging (Manager Tasks)
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Close any relevant trainee maintainer issues with a comment indicating that this merge request is being created, as (they are no longer required to become a maintainer). -
Mention the maintainers from the given specialty and ask them to provide feedback to the manager directly. -
Leave this merge request open for 1 week, to give the maintainers time to provide feedback. -
Ensure we have at least 2 approvals from existing maintainers.
Once This MR is Merged
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Create an access request for maintainer access to gitlab-org/<project>
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Join the [at]frontend-maintainers
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Ask the maintainers in your group to invite you to any maintainer-specific meeting if one exists. -
Let a maintainer add you to gitlab-org/maintainers/frontend
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Announce it everywhere -
Keep reviewing, start merging 🤘 😎 🤘
Edited by Rahul Chanila