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[jakirkham]

EDIT: This has moved to these docs in this PR ( conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io#95 ). So I have cut it from here to avoid unnecessary duplication and to avoid this potentially becoming stale/contradictory. However, it is still important to list people's general preferences regarding what they are maintaining generally to avoid overpinging. This issues has been restructured accordingly.

[jakirkham]

@pelson and @ocefpaf after doing a few of these, I thought we should have some concrete guidelines to make it clear what should be done in the migration. Above I have written some of my thoughts. I am totally happy to amend based on suggestions you or others have. My hope is to reduce the workload in the transfer process in terms of review time and implementation time. Maybe adding a contributing.md to the repo would help in this effort. Any feedback anyone has would be appreciated.

[ocefpaf]

Awesome stuff @jakirkham! I guess we should start writing that down in the webpage.

[pelson]

Very nicely put. I've been meaning to put together a place for these kinds of guidelines, but this issue serves us well for the time being. 👍

[jakirkham]

Thanks guys. Glad to know I am not totally off base.

Yeah, I can see this information being incorporated in various ways. The webpage, the wiki, a CONTRIBUTING.md document here and/or one in each feedstock, linter improvements to smoke out more mistakes via warnings or errors, etc. Welcome any feedback on these and other possible ways of incorporating this information.

[msarahan]

I really like linters + git pre-push hooks. I think many people can't be bothered to read things, and we also shouldn't depend on linting being done on only the CI side (because that encourages the bad behavior of "I'll just push and see what the CI does").

[jakirkham]

This is getting add to the docs ( conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io#95 ) so that we can get it somewhere with more visibility. Suggestions, edits, tweaks, and even PRs against that PR are welcome.

[jakirkham]

Some contributors to these repos were quite prolific, but may not be as actively engaged. If they specify they only want to be contacted for certain recipes or none at all, please respect their wishes also add here what recipes (if any) they would like to be notified for. If they are no longer interested in any conda recipes, make that note here as well. Before contacting anyone please consult the list below to see if that contributor has restrictions.

@asmeurer only cares about sympy or sympy dependencies.

[dan-blanchard]

I care about skll, gridmap, drmaa-python, chardet, streamparse, pystorm, IO::Storm and any dependencies they have that nothing else has.

[jakirkham]

Thanks @dan-blanchard.