On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:36:29PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 08/30/2010 05:14 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > Hi there > > > > It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway > > system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old. > > This > > either means that these devs are inactive since then or that they came back > > and just didn't bother updating their status. Is it possible for infra > > people > > to setup a script to notify the developer ( and CC the retirement alias ) > > about an old devaway entry? > > I can't speak for infra but seems like it would be useful. Anyone could > write a script that infra could put under cron.
find /home/ -name ".away" -mtime +60 -exec sendmail -t <developer> <message.txt> placed on dev box should be a good starting point. where message.txt could be " From: [email protected] To: <developer> CC: [email protected] Subject: Your devaway message is too old [....] " > > > This will help retirement team to track down > > inactive devs with ease. > > Retirement team already has scripts that do good enough job on finding > not active people. Jorge can comment on (if he happens to read this) if > they have enough man power at hand currently to act on the output. > Yeah I do know that but my biggest concern is the status update of this page rather than using it for spotting inactive devs > > Furthermore having so many devs with away messages ( > > where only part of the messages reflect the reality ) looks quite bad to > > community. I think that a simple script that will search all the devaway > > messages and collect those that are >60-90 days is not that difficult to get > > implemented. Does anybody have a better approach to deal with this? > > > > I think this message should have been sent to gentoo-project. Yeah that's true :-/ We can move the discussion there if you want > > Regards, > Petteri > -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410
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