Is there list of official maintainers?

[mrwweb]

In trying to appeal a closed issue, I realized I have no idea who the official maintainers of _s are and what the policy is for closing tickets. Could this information get added to CONTRIBUTING.md?

[samikeijonen]

That's a good point. It would be nice to know for transparency and all.

[bahiirwa]

+1

[mrwweb]

Hoping to get some activity here. Tagging people I've seen close issues or commit PRs (I know this list is way incomplete): @karmatosed @davidakennedy @kovshenin @sixhours @laurelfulford @alaczek

[bahiirwa]

@mrwweb Check out https://github.com/bahiirwa/_s/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. You could build on that.

[mrwweb]

@bahiirwa Where'd you get that list from?

[bahiirwa]

I did some snooping on guys who merged and closed issues in the past. Not conclusive/exhaustive I must say.

[mrwweb]

With the core focus on the Customizer and Editor, _s will likely need to make some changes pretty quickly as new features that impact theming near public release. Getting processes for reviewing issues/PRs/etc in order now, makes a whole lot of sense.

My interest in contributing to _s is seriously flagging due to this uncertainty, and that makes me really sad. I'm extremely hesitant to invest time in coding and thinking that right now seems unlikely to result in a reasonably-responsive and transparent review.

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Also, just sharing this relevant article from @samikeijonen:

• Issues and pull requests should be reviewed and discussed more frequently. I don’t even know who have access the repo, and that’s one of the problems. Transparency is always good.
• There should be several people who takes the main lead reviewing and discussing issues and PRs.
• Main lead could rotate in month period. And main lead would check the repo every week, or every other week.
• Checking the repo could mean active discussion, testing the PRs, closing the issues, calling for help and second opinions and so on.

[davidakennedy]

We’re busy working on some improvements to Underscores, as well as Components. Development should pick up again soon. Things have ebbed and flowed thanks to other priorities.

As far as a list of maintainers, Underscores is and has always been maintained by the Theme Team at Automattic. Hope that helps!

[mrwweb]

Thanks for the clarification, @davidakennedy. Much appreciated.

I'd like to note that "Theme Team" does not appear anywhere in the repo and there's clearly confusion around this if both I and @samikeijonen didn't know this. This really needs to be in CONTRIBUTING.md, README.md, or both.

And while we're here, any chance I can get #1019 unclosed and given further review by the Automattic Theme Team. There's an extensive explanation for why it was closed without given proper consideration on the ticket.

[bahiirwa]

Reopening this is effective. Issue keeps on cropping. #1109 #1084