Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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.

Often people stop maintaining packages. We use heuristics to detect
these people. These are based on commits and bug activity, along with
a whitelist for non-ebuild developers (forum moderators, irc ops, pr
people, and so forth.) They are just heuristics; they are obviously
not perfect. I'd be happy to just add steev to the whitelist for 12
months and then see where we are then (so he stops showing in the
report).

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> Doug Goldstein
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