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 1JF66k-0004Nr-1d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:06:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E67C4E035D; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A19E035D for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:06:56 +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 D720D651D9; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <478DE54C.1080506@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:06:52 -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> <478DE307.1010906@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <478DE307.1010906@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5cb1143e-0947-46e9-a0b1-455dcda49c8a X-Archives-Hash: 9e42b9aa373e8f2aa754893889e2d546 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Doty wrote: > 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) > > s/we expect/some standard/ and the re-enabling can be made very easy, it really depends on what standards you set for someone to be an "active" developer. - -- ======================================================= 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) iQCVAwUBR43lS4BrouQZ9K4FAQJrdgP+MBxGEkyOVeFNF9HnfWCIx97HCGwxKkYq 4gPBsTYa278J6i0byrtVuaWhdQwKv4tKX481ydwXmyXGGJmWbhaREjnfdomkS3Bf /NQVc9Q6jsq5syLwqaveQDcC02L2rQxCC8SxK2Tvb4c4P47YE+RbqkisJIHyXgxb ZnZV6EEadiA= =xy/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org mailing list