Re: [gentoo-council] Retirement of slacking peeps

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 12:15 Tue 15 Jan     , Markus Ullmann wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> our retirement folks brought up a discussion about retiring people that
> do a small amount of commits (1-2 mostly) right before the 60 day period 
> ends so they stay active yet are effectively slacking.
>
> I gave a starting idea to change the minimum amount to something like 
> $count of fixed bugs per month for ebuild developers. As we have enough 
> bugs that are trivial to fix this shouldn't be a real problem at the moment 
> (considering we have ~6.5k bugs open excluding maintainer-wanted).

I don't see a good reason to turn away any amount of help, and I don't 
think we should ever forcibly retire developers because of inactivity. 
If we let them stay developers, they might continue contributing a few 
fixes we wouldn't otherwise get, or they may become more active again in 
the future. Developers are valuable people, and a lot of time has gone 
into their training and experience.

Do I think we should reassign their packages after a while, if they need 
love? Sure.

Do I think we should remove them from roles besides "ebuild developer"? 
Sure.

Thanks,
Donnie
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