[Pattern Idea] Maintainer Apprentice

Title

Maintainer Apprentice

Patlet / Summary

A user wants to work their way into becoming an Approver/Maintainer on an InnerSource repository while being given enough permissions to prove their contributions.

Problem

Sometimes a repository may want to "onboard" maintainers without giving them full write access. This means they are added to a repository to provide content/changes and able to "approve" other changes but not merge them. This could be a form of onboarding or internship on the way to approver or maintainer roles.

Context

From @spier in #669

...our idea with the lower section of the CODEOWNERS file was, that those folks doing the translation work might sort of be "maintainer apprentice", and through their involvement in the project become maintainers eventually

In this particular situation the user was in the CODEOWNERS file but did not have write permissions on the repository. This caused GitHub to label the CODEOWNERS file as having errors.

Forces

What could make this problem difficult?

• the permissions structure in the organization or repository is not present to solve this

Tradeoff(s):

• Knowing a "maintainer apprentice" is given enough permissions to contribute and approve but not merge changes.

Solutions

Any of the following:

• Make sure all reviewers/approvers/maintainers of repositories have write permissions
• Accepting that not all reviewers/approvers/maintainers of repositories have write permissions until earned
• Custom repository or organization roles (if the software allows it) (e.g, Custom Repository Roles)

Resulting Context

What is the situation after the problem has been solved?
The original context is changed indirectly by way of the solution.
Often this section can include discussion of the next possible Patterns/problems introduced.
This section can be short in content - the solution may not introduce new problems or change much context.

Known Instances (optional)

#669

Status

Initial

Author(s) (optional)

@spier
@jmeridth

先從 issue #670 和連結的已知實例 #669 開始，接著檢視 issue 中描述的 CODEOWNERS 與自訂 repository 角色脈絡。完整的模式應完成尚未完成的 Resulting Context 區段，並清楚記錄 maintainer-apprentice 問題、取捨、解決方案與結果。