[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #18, sr #106581 (project administration): Feature request. On installed git, add inline, prompt path info on which git branch the programmer is. The image on the right half showcase for mac. https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rgv5Y.png

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #17, sr #106581 (project administration): I am strongly in favour of automatically removing old "projects needing help" posts. Ideally the software would send a reminder after x (say 6) months asking the submitter to respond by clicking a link if the posting is still required, an

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #16, sr #106581 (project administration): For those who prefer to work remotely: http://www.joydownload.com/how-to/use-teamviewer - here you will find an easy manual how to use TeamViewer. ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

2004: "Free Beltane 1": Karl - this is your project... Last update is 2005... https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=7024&job_id=375 I created it per rms -- Beltane became nonfree, and when he hears about that, he immediately wants to fork a free version and look

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #15, sr #106581 (project administration): Hello, More old job-posting for your consideration. Please reply if those can be deleted. BTW, If you have access to fencepost, you can quickly see information about a project like so: === $ cd ~agn/gnu-sv-proj-stats-09-2014/ # Change "

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #14, sr #106581 (project administration): I've continued and deleted the following posts: https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=2053&job_id=88 https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=487&job_id=102 https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #13, sr #106581 (project administration): The previously listed posts were deleted, as well as the followings: https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=5244&job_id=301 https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=2634&job_id=302 https://savannah.nongnu.

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #12, sr #106581 (project administration): p.s. when your research so conclusively shows that a project is dead, i don't feel any need to confirm it :). feel free to just go ahead and zap them. all i would say is, if there are edge cases, better to err on the side of contact/non

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #11, sr #106581 (project administration): i'm fine with deleting those jobs. tx. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via/

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #10, sr #106581 (project administration): Clean-up continues. Said items (from previous message) were deleted. Additionally I've deleted the following posts which belonged to the same projects: https://savannah.nongnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=297&job_id=20 https://savann

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #9, sr #106581 (project administration): I agree with deleting everything in your new (third) group without asking. (No one to ask. :) Thank you for all your efforts. Just FYI, the story on "quagga" is that the FSF had a host and/or used software by that name. As you said, it

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #8, sr #106581 (project administration): Hello, I have failed to convince you with my sweeping 'delete all old messages' scheme :) So I'll have to do it one-by-one... Please note the general trend rising from these messages... I do think these are many 'stale' projects, which a

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hello Brandon, On 08/13/2014 01:03 PM, Brandon Invergo wrote: Thanks for the interest in picking this task back up. The topic of cleaning up the list has come up a few times so I think there is still merit to the idea, thankless slog of a job that it may be. One thought (without knowing anyt

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #7, sr #106581 (project administration): Hi Assaf - nothing to apologize for; I'm all for directness :). I just wanted to know if there was something better than Savannah's jobs that we could use for GNU "technical help wanted" organization in general. I completely agree that a

Re: [savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Assaf, Thanks for the interest in picking this task back up. The topic of cleaning up the list has come up a few times so I think there is still merit to the idea, thankless slog of a job that it may be. One thought (without knowing anything about the software backend): might it be easier to

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #6, sr #106581 (project administration): Hello Karl, Item #4 is only an opinion, and I should have voiced it more subtly. If it sounded harsh I apologize. I do think, however, that the list as it currently stands is not inviting: it does not give the impression of a vibrant com

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #5, sr #106581 (project administration): only time for one short question now: what are these other "effective" ways that GNU packages could recruit developers? For many years now, sv job postings are the central way we recommend package maintainers look for contributors. And I

[savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #4, sr #106581 (project administration): Hello Karl, Brandon, If you agree, I'm going to pickup this cleanup issue. But my stance is different: I think clean-up / purging should be very aggressive. Here's my rationale: 1. Broadly speaking, every free-software project could use

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

On 2/15/12 4:09 AM, Brandon Invergo wrote: 2) Updating the text of the post does not actually bump the date. Drat. Michael, would it be feasible for the visible date in job posting to reflect the mtime rather than the ctime (analogously speaking :)? (I assume that is what is happening, but

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

> 2) Updating the text of the post does not actually bump the date. > > Drat. Michael, would it be feasible for the visible date in job posting > to reflect the mtime rather than the ctime (analogously speaking :)? > (I assume that is what is happening, but then, I've already made one > wron

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Brandon, I've sent out a good number of messages (~50) and I've started getting some responses. Generally the response is good: Excellent. 2) Updating the text of the post does not actually bump the date. Drat. Michael, would it be feasible for the visible date in job posting

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Karl et al. I've sent out a good number of messages (~50) and I've started getting some responses. Generally the response is good: some simply forgot about the posting and want it closed, some took the cue to update and some have removed the posts themselves. No one seems upset by the proposal.

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Brandon, is it already possible for me to close positions on the site or will I need special account permissions I surely hope you will need permission :), and of course it's no problem to arrange that when the need arrives ... Thanks again, k

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Ok great! Just one thing: is it already possible for me to close positions on the site or will I need special account permissions (not that I have anything to close yet, of course...just in anticipation). Cheers, Brandon On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 16:28 -0800, Karl Berry wrote: > Here's an updated pro

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Here's an updated proposed letter Looks great, Brandon! I say go for it :). Thanks much, k

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Karl, First, a couple direct responses and then I'll put an updated draft letter at the end. > Also, we don't want to blast maintainers with one email for every old > job they posted. It would be better to send them one email with all the > old jobs, if we can manage it. That shouldn't be a

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Brandon, (Sorry for the delayed reply.) One specific question about the Savane software: can the author manually just update the date of the post or does the text have to be updated in order to do so? As I recall, there's no direct control over the date; I expect you have to upda

Re: [Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Hi Karl, I should preface this by saying that I guess I didn't do a good enough job digging into the Savane software! I didn't realize that closed ads are hidden from view (I naively saw all the old ads and assumed that many of them were closed and just needed to be cleaned out). Since that's the

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #3, sr #106581 (project administration): Hi Brandon -- thanks for jumping in with this. I completely agree with 1) and 2), but (despite what I wrote originally :) why delete old postings, any more than there is to delete old bug reports? After all, it's not unlikely that the sa

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

Follow-up Comment #2, sr #106581 (project administration): I agree that it should be cleaned up. I've rethought it and changed my opinion compared to what I wrote to savannah-hackers-public. Here is how I think it could be handled: 1) Once a posting has been open for one year, contact the poste

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

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[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106581] doing something about stale jobs?

URL: Summary: doing something about stale jobs? Project: Savannah Administration Submitted by: karl Submitted on: Fri 12 Dec 2008 04:40:23 PM PST Category: Trackers (bugs, support