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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> When you are active in Gentoo during one week and less active during the |
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> next it may happen that people (sometimes jokingly) call you a |
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> "slacker". This pattern seems to have become common enough that people |
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> even started calling themselves slackers when they are less active than |
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> potentially possible. Is this reasonable and healthy? |
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> No, it isn't. |
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Why is it unhealthy? Do you think it encourages people to 'always |
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meet their potential?' I think it is very healthy for developers to |
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note when they cannot meet what many would consider their 'routine' |
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workload so that the community can attempt to detect and meeting these |
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staffing needs. You may dislike the manner in which some developers |
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make this known 'hahaha I slacked off last week..' but the end result |
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is that it happens (often in .away messages.) |
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> As far as I know most if not all Gentoo developers do unpaid voluntary |
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> work in and for Gentoo. So every single minute a Gentoo developer puts |
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> into Gentoo is a gift, incontrast to understanding every other minute a |
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> stolen one. How come such a wrong concept even made it into the process |
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> of the council? Officially being marked as a slacker? Is that the only |
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> way to ensure an active council? |
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I would hesitate to make the assertion that every minute spent on |
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Gentoo is a gift. You are not counting the people who do not always |
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have a positive impact on the community (see the other thread where |
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you brought up CoC violations and other 'gifts' of community members.) |
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Do you disagree with the policy that council members should attend the |
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meetings? If so why? If not, what is wrong with the existing policy; |
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the wording? |
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> To get this mis-concept out again I need your help. |
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> There is no such thing as slacking in Gentoo - no matter how many weeks |
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> you ran without commits. It's time to get this understanding back to |
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> its healthy counterpart. Yes, it does make a difference to call a |
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> script activity-monitor or slacking-detector. |
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I am unsure what you are actually asking to change. Are you aiming to |
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change developer behavior? Tools? Processes? |
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> What do we need to to do fix this? |
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> What are the places where you observe this inversion? |
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> Thanks for your interest, |
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> Sebastian |
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