Specifying a tool maintainer in .shed.yml files

[simonbray]

For the autoupdate PRs (see galaxyproject/tools-iuc#3533) it would be nice to be able to ping one or more tool maintainers to review the changes. This would require a way to associate GitHub users as maintainers with a tool, similar to how they are listed in bioconda recipes (e.g. https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/recipes/spades/meta.yaml#L73). I assume the most sensible way is to add a field to the .shed.yml files.

I am wondering, firstly if there would be any objections, and secondly, if anyone has any tips on implementing it? From the point of view of the CI it would be adequate to just add a maintainers field to the YAML files, which can be read whenever a new PR is opened. On the other hand it might be preferable to integrate this field directly into the Galaxy code. In the latter case, I guess the correct place to start would be https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/dev/lib/tool_shed/webapp/model/__init__.py#L182?

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[nsoranzo]

Maybe it's easier to use a CODEOWNERS file? The Training Material repo uses it.

[simonbray]

That's an very interesting idea and probably would indeed be a lot easier, thanks @nsoranzo!

[hexylena]

yeah, I already use it for jbrowse+circos, the rest of IUC is muted for me to make the signal:noise ratio manageable. https://github.com/galaxyproject/tools-iuc/blob/master/.github/CODEOWNERS

Fully support this idea @simonbray :)