Conda-forge.github.io: Explain how to become a maintainer

[jakirkham]

Was searching for recipe-maintainers in the docs, but found nothing. This should come up when explaining how to become a recipe maintainer for a feedstock, but it doesn't seem to. Would be good to spell this out more clearly. Some places to add this

• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#the-recipe-meta-yaml (add "extra" section spelling this out)
• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/updating_pkgs.html (add "Becoming a maintainer")
• https://conda-forge.org/#update_recipe (we suggest becoming a maintainer, but don't say how; could add a link)
• ?

[jakirkham]

cc @viniciusdc

[prachi237]

@jakirkham thanks for opening this issue, I would like work on it.

[jakirkham]

That would be great Prachi! 😄

I'll let Vini chime in on next steps here 🙂

[prachi237]

Was searching for recipe-maintainers in the docs, but found nothing. This should come up when explaining how to become a recipe maintainer for a feedstock, but it doesn't seem to. Would be good to spell this out more clearly. Some places to add this

• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#the-recipe-meta-yaml (add "extra" section spelling this out)
• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/updating_pkgs.html (add "Becoming a maintainer")
• https://conda-forge.org/#update_recipe (we suggest becoming a maintainer, but don't say how; could add a link)
• ?

what I inferred , so basically we r supposed to add three more sections so that while searching for recipe-maintainers in the docs we can avail those sections too.

[prachi237]

That would be great Prachi! 😄

I'll let Vini chime in on next steps here 🙂

Thanku sir it would be a great help if I can get some more info abt it.

[jakirkham]

Was searching for recipe-maintainers in the docs, but found nothing. This should come up when explaining how to become a recipe maintainer for a feedstock, but it doesn't seem to. Would be good to spell this out more clearly. Some places to add this

• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/adding_pkgs.html#the-recipe-meta-yaml (add "extra" section spelling this out)
• https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/updating_pkgs.html (add "Becoming a maintainer")
• https://conda-forge.org/#update_recipe (we suggest becoming a maintainer, but don't say how; could add a link)
• ?

what I inferred , so basically we r supposed to add three more sections so that while searching for recipe-maintainers in the docs we can avail those sections too.

Probably 2 sections and then a link from the homepage to the becoming a maintainer section

That said, don't want to prescribe this too much in case you have other thoughts on how to improve clarity here

[viniciusdc]

I do think that is a lot to be done, here for instance we need to annex the comments of staged recipes to it too, as also a better understanding of maintaining already built packages. The first step here would be determining a good starting location: as @jakirkham said https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/updating_pkgs.html this would be a good place to start, then a PR with some really brief introduction to the mainterner role (it's already written somewhere) the some explanation about our policies of requesting to be a package maintainer and how to do that once approved (recipe updates and so on)

[viniciusdc]

once that is done, we can add links to the relative sections and main page (there are some issue opened about maintaining docs too, it should be good have a look into them, maybe it might help)

[prachi237]

@viniciusdc can u help me with this issue, what the first step I shd take to begin with this. like I got it that I am supposed to add two more sections ,followed by link but I am a bit confused from where to start with.

[viniciusdc]

@viniciusdc can u help me with this issue, what the first step I shd take to begin with this. like I got it that I am supposed to add two more sections ,followed by link but I am a bit confused from where to start with.

Hi @prachi237, I think the first step would be creating a PR describing how to become a mainteiner here (Add a new section there). About the content, we can discuss more about it later, I would also like to link that to the maintainer roles. Also, as there is no previous mention about what is a maintainer in that section the note there seems to be referring to something not completely defined.

I think you may start with this text and enhancing it a little bit more to explain that besides maintaining already existing packages, you are a maintein when creating one too.