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Mike Doty wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> On 12:15 Tue 15 Jan , Markus Ullmann wrote: |
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>>> Hi guys, |
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>>> our retirement folks brought up a discussion about retiring people that |
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>>> do a small amount of commits (1-2 mostly) right before the 60 day period |
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>>> ends so they stay active yet are effectively slacking. |
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>>> I gave a starting idea to change the minimum amount to something like |
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>>> $count of fixed bugs per month for ebuild developers. As we have enough |
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>>> bugs that are trivial to fix this shouldn't be a real problem at the moment |
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>>> (considering we have ~6.5k bugs open excluding maintainer-wanted). |
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>> I don't see a good reason to turn away any amount of help, and I don't |
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>> think we should ever forcibly retire developers because of inactivity. |
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>> If we let them stay developers, they might continue contributing a few |
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>> fixes we wouldn't otherwise get, or they may become more active again in |
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>> the future. Developers are valuable people, and a lot of time has gone |
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>> into their training and experience. |
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>> Do I think we should reassign their packages after a while, if they need |
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>> love? Sure. |
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>> Do I think we should remove them from roles besides "ebuild developer"? |
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>> Sure. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Donnie |
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> How about calling them inactive. infra will remove cvs/svn/git access |
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> and when they have time to contribute to a manner that we expect that |
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> access can be restored. |
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> Know that infra is/has been planning to automatically disable |
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> cvs/svn/git access for those who haven't committed in some time period |
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> (2 months is the current idea) |
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s/we expect/some standard/ and the re-enabling can be made very easy, it |
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really depends on what standards you set for someone to be an "active" |
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developer. |
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Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Infrastructure |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead |
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