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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:13:15PM +0200, Michael Weber wrote: |
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> Hello fellow developers. |
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> On 08/30/2010 04:20 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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> > Sounds good to me, but I'd actually be more interested in having |
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> > something the other way around; i.e. monitoring for activity in |
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> > commits, bugzilla, IRC and maybe the -dev mailing list to see if |
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> > people are still active and send them a message to encourage them to |
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> > set devaway if they haven't been active in, say, 15 days. |
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> I think the intention was to force actually active developers to |
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> remove their out-of-date .away message, which isn't very representative |
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> for the project. |
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.away age statistics, as of right now (2010/08/31, 07:27 UTC). |
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- 53 developers with .away files. |
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- Oldest: 2007/Mar/01 (1278.8 days old). |
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- Mean: 153 days old. |
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- Median: 55.5 days. |
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- First, Third quartiles: 23.3, 136.5 days. |
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What do the numbers mean? My opinion looking at them is that MOST |
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developers are using the .away system correctly, however some developers |
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just have forgotten to remove old .away files (they claimed they would |
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be back by a date, and commits started up after that). |
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I'll fully admit that I neglected to remove my last .away until I |
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double-checked earlier today. |
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How about this as an idea: |
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1. Include a parsaable return date I suggest ("Returning:YYYY/MM/DD", |
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"Returning:Unknown") |
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2. Automated emails when: |
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2.1. It's after the return date (weekly). |
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2.2. You start committing again. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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