-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01/28/2012 03:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> Was reviewing http://dev.gentoo.org/devaway/ and I have seen >> there are a lot of obsolete messages. Could you take a look and >> verify don't have an old .away file in your homes ;) ? > > Might not hurt to generally consider the usefulness of .away > messages in general. If you have one and it doesn't really convey > anything useful, then it might as well not be there. > > If Gentoo is something you only sporadically work at, and you plan > on being that way for years, and you carefully control your > responsibilities accordingly, I'm not sure it is necessary to > advertise the fact. > > If you normally have one level of availability, and it is going to > be different for some reasonable period of time, then it is useful > so that people know what is going on. > > Useful messages: "I'm on vacation until Feb 8th - check with other > team members in the meantime." "Just started a new job - bear with > me while I hand off responsibilities / get back on my feet in a few > weeks." > > Less useful message: "My job comes first - will not have much time > for Gentoo for the next 30 years but I'll do what I can." > > If things are changing .away is a great tool. If things are going > to impact your level of Gentoo contribution for a long time the > best thing to do is to just change your level of involvement to > suit. Probably not good to be the project lead for Chromium if you > can only look for updates twice a year, and so on. If you maintain > three packages and do the odd arch test and your teammates > generally know that, no real need to advertise - just watch for bug > emails and comment on anything that looks urgent... > > Rich > This has been discussed in the paste and the result was this bug report[1]. But these people who have long standing devaways are not participating on our lists therefore these threads ends up in /dev/null.
[1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338829 - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJPJFKLAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCZhsP+gOUH0oHUu/hstJF31Y9uzzQ 6av6w9e8+21tv41h/AuIdjfx0eb7w/6oXT+v6m7oVr0IcyfR+44VVQ146TAfcdCu cjwbmQEP+l/Omx3nic6DfG2RT9NTXsoC9nKSFQ9H3xqg3uKEZXRiwTgh3bnu/lYE tzXgfx7XBy8KBt6Tck+k5AIdJcM+aGvFsGWA0qqPYw9Wcu9CHYoaU7fkZFfVRBhh uNGhre/SYku0GQmi1C+fBnVIP4RJ+W9MY/4urJxgDbPOy2RV/naIH+jFYPBxPL8A 5tDKe9/YeGD/MwFUtc3PXFT66q6CPG3TP5cltyI6VpJKwLdCgln44486fIZQS8Qm KyhmxnVqX6sCeRFC14WeIZwif1w58BEJXHqUCfZrZbjeywCUa9wNgA8u7iLlFKaW ZlBlaoIEkjzowgEtjK5LaxpIPHrlhQGjawFwlAd94/hVDydElCLTamyEQqiEwIIJ UmPtKwYEFYMf9Xzzj9Yi3gMXhYncYFeO9xi1Y9YvjfIBD9kK9ljptZyvOxVPczGM OgnT4FVc/YSTHF7uhPXo7gN0hZiaDBAQaqGWx7DwdkyP7HE6ZNLa5NgTWW051TTc dJVkA0GfF+Ek70Omjl6NCpGA1N6rlK0JgK7qPeTouV1HjtyW9QrDLwdtpveyENNV aM657X0mCeXAqgsHfrPY =gbzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
