Re: [gentoo-project] The problem of defunct and undermanned projects in Gentoo

[Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:12:42 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> What do you think? Would you mind getting that amount of mail once?
> Any other ideas?

From the mail I got, ( which I didn't mind ), I felt there was one
distinguisher that was missing:

"active" vs "passive" membership.

Like, I get the impression ( with perl for instance ) that although
many of its members are "around", and they occasionally "do something",
I'm not sure they can all count as "There" in terms of staff-power
metrics.

If you make one commit every 6 months, are you really still "active"?

Its useful to keep them all on the list, because they're people who
have knowledge and can do the work if it comes there way, so I don't
think *removing* them is the right thing to do.

But for keeping tabs on "do we need more staff or not", it just serves
as a confusing source of data.


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