[gentoo-dev] changes to staffing-needs page and project pages

2008-04-02 Thread Marius Mauch
Since a few weeks ago project pages can contain a new recruitment section to list open positions within the project that require fresh blood (thanks to neysx for implementing this). Historically those were only listed centrally http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/index.xml, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: How does having the average time between commits be at most a week sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone. -- Best regards, Wulf signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread joshua jackson
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: How does having the average time between commits be at most a week sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Auty
Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal survey[1], taking any kind of action against

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal survey[1], taking any kind

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. This means that you should have devaway on. That assumption is false. If there was a need to do weekly commits and the dev in question couldn't manage it, it would be wise to expect that he

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Auty
Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. I can see your point, I was more thinking about developers who have maybe one or two small packages that don't have many version bumps or bugs. They may be entirely able to respond to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Wulf C. Krueger kirjoitti: On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: How does having the average time between commits be at most a week sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone. I don't have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Brown
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. This means that you should have devaway on. So if you don't maintain enough packages to commit on average once a week, you're not worth

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. I can see your point, I was more thinking about developers who have maybe one or two small packages that don't have many version bumps or bugs. They may be entirely

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-libs/swl

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Loeser
It will be removed at the end of the month. 03 Apr 2008; Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] package.mask: mask dev-libs/swl due to dead upstream and not working properly; bug #206163 -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Jan Kundrát wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. This means that you should have devaway on. That assumption is false. If there was a need to do weekly commits and the dev in question couldn't manage it, it would be wise

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Petteri Räty wrote: Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal