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Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:48:18 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |
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>> So going with this idea... Isn't the treecleaner masking 30-day at |
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>> present? What about extending that just a bit, to 5 weeks total, while |
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>> reducing the actual masking to 4 weeks, with the extra week a wait time |
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>> between the traditional last-rites mail and the masking? |
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> No, masking for removal should take 30 days. I strongly feel that before |
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> treecleaner@ does any masking, an announcement should go to -dev@ and |
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> -announce@ a pretty long time in advance, maybe two months, especially |
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> with the two cockups a month that I am counting now. |
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30-day masking /does/ give the folks updating once a month at least one |
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warning, so I can see the case for that. |
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But... IMO extending the pre-mask warning another full 30 days... is |
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asking for trouble going the /other/ way. It's not urgent enough to |
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require immediate action... which can unfortunately cause people to put |
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it off and forget about it. Then it's masked 30 days later... and we're |
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back where we were! |
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So I'd say a week to 15 days pre-mask warning... and 14-15 days is |
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stretching it. A week is just about right, short enough to require |
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urgent action and thus front-burnering, long enough that if there's a |
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clear objection to be made, it should be very clear within 2-3 days, and |
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there's another 4 days to actually do something about it before the |
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masking. |
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Just my (non-gentoo-dev) opinion, however. I'm acutely aware I'm not the |
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one doing the work, so if that opinion doesn't match dev-reality, feel |
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free to ignore it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |