From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTl2E-0000wb-RD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:20:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EF55E0BD3; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D63E0BD3 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (f052103085.adsl.alicedsl.de [78.52.103.85]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8792C1B41B5 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C2A8DB6.2060101@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:20:06 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100419 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] The mis-concept of "slacking" in Gentoo References: <4C184B06.8040806@gentoo.org> <4C18FFE4.4080908@gentoo.org> <4C1909D4.7010703@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4C1909D4.7010703@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 908051b9-ef98-464f-803f-86d668e7be87 X-Archives-Hash: 94983a6fc788de9fc8d5e8b1e06f6a33 Steve, On 06/16/10 19:28, Steve Dibb wrote: > The way I see it, there are a few types of "slacker" status. > > There are those who are just plain busy, and can't respond in a timely > manner due to real-life issues. Then there are a group who just don't > have time for Gentoo as a regular maintenance task anymore, but still > participate in discussions, development, etc. Then there's the last > group who are completely unresponsive and inactive -- these are the ones > that are real blockers. > > I don't like the idea of pretending there's no such thing as slacking, > because there is. What you describe isn't slacking to me. What is slacking to you? is this a language thing? Slacker translates to "Faulenzer" in German, a person being "faul" or lazy in English. Best, Sebastian