El jue, 20-12-2012 a las 21:30 -0800, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió: > On 12/20/12 7:21 PM, Doug Goldstein 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). > > Dough, thank you for rising the issue. > > I'm receiving the undertakers@ e-mail, so I have a pretty good view of > what's happening. > > I have several suggestions how we can improve things: > > 1. 3 months is too short period anyway. > > 2. Think through what the goals are. We do not want to retire as many > people as possible. We do not want to frustrate people who do contribute > to Gentoo. We do not want to discourage people who consider becoming new > developers. At least I don't. > > 3. I think what's important is to keep packages maintained. I consider > maintainership to be a duty, not a privilege. If someone is listed in > metadata.xml, but is not really maintaining the package, that creates a > formal illusion that the package is maintained, and may prevent other > people from stepping up and taking maintenance of that package. > > 4. I suggest that we focus on the above: keeping packages maintained. > Taking packages out of hands of inactive/overworked maintainers is good. > They can always become _more_ active, which is easier if they retain cvs > access. If they make a single commit every 3-6 months, I'm fine with > that as long as things are maintained properly. > > 5. Remember that cvs/bugzilla activity is not the only way of > contributing. It's probably most tanglible and very needed, but let's > not reduce real people and their real world situations, and their effort > to contribute to just dates and numbers. > > Paweł > >
Also I must note that I am currently only looking to people with 0 commits AND bugs assigned to them, if they don't have unresolved bugs for a long time I usually tend to leave them. Also, before sending first mail, I also send them a mail to set their devaway message and handle his bugs and if they don't have time to reassign his packages, I do it for them.
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