Add Alex Pennells as a frontend maintainer for GitLab
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.
Summary Justification
- Have been working on the GitLab project for 2 years as part of groupoptimize
- Authored over 130+ MRs
- Reviewed and approved over 250+ MRs
- 13 were a Community contribution
- Have been training to become a frontend maintainer under @ekigbo's mentorship
- Since the Trainee FE Maintainer issue was opened (2024-05-21):
- Total of 20 MRs reviewed
- Merged as-is: 12 (60%)
Past reviews
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
withOwner
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Announce it everywhere -
Keep reviewing, start merging 🤘 😎 🤘
Edited by Alex Pennells