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On 08/30/2010 05:14 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> Hi there |
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> It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway |
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> system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old. This |
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> either means that these devs are inactive since then or that they came back |
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> and just didn't bother updating their status. Is it possible for infra people |
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> to setup a script to notify the developer ( and CC the retirement alias ) |
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> about an old devaway entry? |
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I can't speak for infra but seems like it would be useful. Anyone could |
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write a script that infra could put under cron. |
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> This will help retirement team to track down |
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> inactive devs with ease. |
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Retirement team already has scripts that do good enough job on finding |
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not active people. Jorge can comment on (if he happens to read this) if |
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they have enough man power at hand currently to act on the output. |
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> Furthermore having so many devs with away messages ( |
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> where only part of the messages reflect the reality ) looks quite bad to |
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> community. I think that a simple script that will search all the devaway |
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> messages and collect those that are >60-90 days is not that difficult to get |
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> implemented. Does anybody have a better approach to deal with this? |
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I think this message should have been sent to gentoo-project. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |