On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:15 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:54 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
> > 
> >>>As I am now not only the Release Engineering lead, but also the x86
> >>>Release Coordinator, I am fielding nearly 100% of these issues.
> >>>
> >>>I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME TO DO OTHER PEOPLE'S QA FOR THEM.
> >>
> >>If you are that overworked, perhaps you should find more people to help
> >>with releng and the duties you have? I've been in a similar position as
> >>yourself where its hard to find good quality folks that stick around,
> >>and then you get used to doing everything yourself. I haven't seen any
> >>emails asking for help or people for releng. This is the first I've
> >>heard of your troubles with not having adequate time for all the duties
> >>you do yourself.
> > 
> > 
> > Really?  Did you read -core on October 27th?
> 
> Yeah, as i just sent, My bad on missing that. Sorry about not catching that.

I'd responded before seeing your response.

> >>If you need help, please ask for it and at least try and get some of
> >>that load off of you so that we don't take things out of gentoo simply
> >>because of the lack of time.
> > 
> > 
> > I did.
> > 
> > I got exactly *0* responses. 
> 
> Only thing I have to say to that is try sending that email on -dev and
> try putting it up on the staffing needs page. That way its documented in
> a public form and other people will see it.

Actually, I've had a volunteer come forward from among the developer
ranks, thunder.  I'm going to try to get him up-to-speed for the
upcoming release.  The main reason why I did not send this to -dev
before was that I am already at a stretch for time, and do not have time
to bring someone through the recruitment process for this.

> No need to start a flame war about this :-)

Definitely not.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux