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On 11/07/18 07:45, Jason Zaman wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 11:22:21AM -0500, Matthew Thode wrote: |
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>> On 18-11-02 16:05:35, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Hello, |
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>>> |
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>>> The Undertakers team has frequently received various forms of |
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>>> 'criticism' of their effort in attempting to find and retire inactive |
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>>> developers. This is getting as far as to claim that we shouldn't retire |
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>>> anyone because there are no limits on commit slots. |
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>>> |
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>>> Therefore, I would like to ask the wider community a general question: |
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>>> how do you feel about preserving commit access for people who no longer |
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>>> actively commit to Gentoo? I'm talking about extreme cases, say, |
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>>> no commits to any user-visible repository for over a year. |
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>>> |
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>> I'm not sure the exact time, but I think it shouldn't be user-visable, |
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>> but 'Gentoo' that should ben what's looked at. |
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>> As far as changing the developer to a non-committing developer, what |
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>> happens if they want to come back? Would they need to retake the quiz, |
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>> re-find a mentor/recruiter, etc? |
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> Yeah it seems like right now never-been-a-dev and |
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> was-busy-so-retired-dev have the same long path to (re)gaining full |
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> commit privs. I'd like if recruiters had some rough criteria for when |
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> you can just become a dev again easily. eg if you havent even used |
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> gentoo for years then obviously re-taking the quizzes is good. if you've |
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> still been using gentoo a ton but not developing then probably could be |
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> re-instated without anything. or if a new big EAPI happened in the |
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> meantime then just read up on the changes and you'd be all set. |
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> -- Jason |
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It seems as though the perceived difficulty with recruitment is less due |
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to the process [1], and more due to a lack of people [2] on hand for |
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handling what little formal recruitment is required and others |
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pointlessly adding work to the process [3]. |
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[1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters |
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[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/26943 |
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