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

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org>]

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On 18/07/17 20:56, Kent Fredric wrote:
> 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.
>
There seem to be a lot of devs who are 'on the list' but I never see in
commit logs, etc. Sure they're devs alright, but they're not devaway,
and yet they don't appear to be providing any meaningful contribution.

I think mgorny was doing some general commit stats, and I have yet to
compile my own, but it would be very interesting to see how many
'active' team members there were in any given project. I suspect the
results could be very telling ...


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