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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: Markus Ullmann <jokey@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Retirement of slacking peeps
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:15:48
Message-Id: 20080116081544.GA20346@supernova
In Reply to: [gentoo-council] Retirement of slacking peeps by Markus Ullmann
1 On 12:15 Tue 15 Jan , Markus Ullmann wrote:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > our retirement folks brought up a discussion about retiring people that
5 > do a small amount of commits (1-2 mostly) right before the 60 day period
6 > ends so they stay active yet are effectively slacking.
7 >
8 > I gave a starting idea to change the minimum amount to something like
9 > $count of fixed bugs per month for ebuild developers. As we have enough
10 > bugs that are trivial to fix this shouldn't be a real problem at the moment
11 > (considering we have ~6.5k bugs open excluding maintainer-wanted).
12
13 I don't see a good reason to turn away any amount of help, and I don't
14 think we should ever forcibly retire developers because of inactivity.
15 If we let them stay developers, they might continue contributing a few
16 fixes we wouldn't otherwise get, or they may become more active again in
17 the future. Developers are valuable people, and a lot of time has gone
18 into their training and experience.
19
20 Do I think we should reassign their packages after a while, if they need
21 love? Sure.
22
23 Do I think we should remove them from roles besides "ebuild developer"?
24 Sure.
25
26 Thanks,
27 Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-council] Retirement of slacking peeps Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>