From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JF5xL-0003Jm-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:57:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09831E07B6; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBAADE07B6 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.20.50] (dsl092-012-007.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.12.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF6526527C; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <478DE307.1010906@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:57:11 -0800 From: Mike Doty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071005) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donnie Berkholz CC: Markus Ullmann , gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Retirement of slacking peeps References: <478C95D0.6000502@gentoo.org> <20080116081544.GA20346@supernova> In-Reply-To: <20080116081544.GA20346@supernova> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cbce2343-49b6-49c2-a726-1d778c7bb193 X-Archives-Hash: 2acc6e586d8372eba5e6c0f408fc653d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 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 How about calling them inactive. infra will remove cvs/svn/git access and when they have time to contribute to a manner that we expect that access can be restored. Know that infra is/has been planning to automatically disable cvs/svn/git access for those who haven't committed in some time period (2 months is the current idea) - -- ======================================================= Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo Infrastructure Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead GPG: E1A5 1C9C 93FE F430 C1D6 F2AF 806B A2E4 19F4 AE05 ======================================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBR43jBoBrouQZ9K4FAQL3wwQAqZBya84VYclagLRhhHm00quGQk6lxEMS VyCbttxdqqof/dGX4BH+5K1n89De62mZpExu+pZk95mCvekkbvzInG7L2fQ2Oy4l PTiYdb5D/k3z/GaYnYBXHupqwoJP/7bYkhn8WM+q/lysIkUrxOXnhJKdWcOJHxav x+4arUQ2CWc= =db2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org mailing list