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From: Michael Weber <xmw@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve devaway system
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:13:32
Message-Id: 4C7C1EEB.1000503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve devaway system by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 Hello fellow developers.
2
3 On 08/30/2010 04:20 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
4 > Sounds good to me, but I'd actually be more interested in having
5 > something the other way around; i.e. monitoring for activity in
6 > commits, bugzilla, IRC and maybe the -dev mailing list to see if
7 > people are still active and send them a message to encourage them to
8 > set devaway if they haven't been active in, say, 15 days.
9
10 I think the intention was to force actually active developers to
11 remove their out-of-date .away message, which isn't very representative
12 for the project.
13
14 You should not annoy currently busy/otherwise occupied developers by asking
15 them to do random stuff to avoid a drop-out.
16
17 My first 2 cents.
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19 Michael Weber
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22 Gentoo Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve devaway system "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>