On Monday, August 30, 2010 10:14:48 Markos Chandras wrote:
> 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? This will help retirement
> team to track down inactive devs with ease. 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'd extend the spec a little so that the dev can declare their expected return 
time and have the script ignore entries before that date

perhaps say "the very last line should be just the date in YYYY-MM-DD format"
-mike

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