Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

[Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>]

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On 2009.05.06 19:32, Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 01:45 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:45:14 AllenJB wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > I am sure there are some developers which can offer a great amount
> of time to 
> > help/revibe slacking or dead projects ( e.g. userrel, newsletters
> etc ). The 
> > thing is that leadership on several projects is inactive hence 
> users
> or devs 
> > who are willing to help are getting demotivated. It would be really
> nice each 
> > individual project to perform a clean up like:
[snip]
> > 
> > Looking 'active' is very important to attract new people to 
> project.
> 
> > 
> > Is this so hard?

[snip]
> The only issue I have with the idea is that projects with dead 
> members
> and slacking leaders are unlikely to perform such a task, so you'll
> never get any updates from them, so devs will be demotivated to work
> on
> $project, and thus we enter the vicious cycle again...
> 
> welp
> 
Welp,

Not so.

These projects would be delegated upwards to the council and either 
scrapped offically, or some recruitment process started to breath new 
life into them.

Maybe dead projects are cleaned like treecleaners ?

- -- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon) a member of
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