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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:19:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1356077945.2133.27.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFWqQMQ+W=h_0rZ2oABgk=sYGArCYxxa7=4uzbAtdYhSa+veBw@mail.gmail.com>

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El jue, 20-12-2012 a las 21:21 -0600, Doug Goldstein escribió:
> I'm curious who had the brain dead idea to retire Gentoo developers
> that are still interested in the distro, that maintain low activity
> packages for herds that are stretched way too thin, and are still
> contributing to the distro in many ways other than direct CVS commits
> (e.g. overlays, user support, providing hardware to other devs, etc).
> 
> I could MAYBE understand it if they're consuming some valuable
> resource that we need to free up by retiring them. But instead they
> get a nasty-gram about their impending retirement and decide if that's
> how they are to be treated that they can be retired. When they finally
> want to contribute again they have the lovely uphill of our dreadfully
> painful recruitment process.
> 
> I'm really just trying to understand the sense in this.

I have just explained it at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101792#c17



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21  3:21 [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements Doug Goldstein
2012-12-21  3:26 ` Peter Stuge
2012-12-21  3:33 ` Rich Freeman
2012-12-21  4:23   ` Peter Stuge
2012-12-21  4:31     ` Peter Stuge
2012-12-21  6:09   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-12-21 10:38     ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-21 16:16     ` Peter Stuge
2012-12-21 16:57       ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-12-22  7:14         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-21  3:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Matt Turner
2012-12-21  5:30 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2012-12-21  8:25   ` Pacho Ramos
2012-12-21  8:33   ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2012-12-21  8:49   ` Brian Dolbec
2012-12-21 10:46     ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-21 15:22       ` Brian Dolbec
2012-12-21 22:50       ` Peter Stuge
2012-12-22  1:05         ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-23  2:06           ` Doug Goldstein
2012-12-23  9:39             ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-23 11:57               ` Rich Freeman
2012-12-21  8:18 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-12-21  8:19 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2012-12-21  9:21 ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-21 12:06   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-12-21 12:32     ` Arun Raghavan
2012-12-21 12:36       ` Arun Raghavan
2012-12-21 12:57       ` Rich Freeman
2013-01-07 15:07       ` Marijn
2012-12-26 17:46 ` Alec Warner

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