Clarify owning team requirement

[cpaelzer]

As discussed in the team meeting this tries to address #39 and clarifies the owning team and our earliest "does this make sense to go on" checks in general.

This is a quick write-up of what I had in mind about it, let me know what you think.

[eslerm]

thanks @cpaelzer !

this reads well and covers everything that is needed

[didrocks]

I only have a comment of points before formally approving this PR.

[didrocks]

I don’t think we should have that item here.

In my view, the MIR should not be marked to be reviewing before having an agreement on the owning team. It’s part of the MIR requirements and this requirement should be fullfiled or it will occur maybe undeed review (no team agreeing to take ownership) once it’s reviewed. However, it means, in particular for community, that we need a point of contact for each potential owning team.

[eslerm]

agreed

would it be fair to assign a team to review an ownership request?

[cpaelzer]

We are hereby adding a lot of clarification already in regard to the topic.

Also adding a formal place and process like a point of contact per team is quite an overload - and we all have seen it they keep changing faster than you update a doc/list.

I think when such a MIR request (they are rare) comes in it should be our task (much easier with our context knowledge) to re-reroute this to a requested owning team to say yes/no.

Our check for TODO: A team is committed to own long term maintenance of this package. together with the duplication and the rationale. And the section ends with

If any of the above checks in this section the MIR team can decide to      
skip the rest of the check until these basic questions are resolved.

Due to that there should never be much wasted review time, but OTOH we can help the requester to reach the right team/people. That can then be however we like IRC pings, assignment, ... - depends on the case and team.

[didrocks]

With the rationale on

If any of the above checks in this section the MIR team can decide to skip the rest of the check until these basic questions are resolved.

I’m fine with it thus. I agree that the MIR team may be one the best to reroute the requests too. Note though that each team has an owner, and I think the owner is the PoC and it should (hopefully) be up to date.