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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] The mis-concept of "slacking" in Gentoo
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:10:37
Message-Id: 4C1975F7.5010903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] The mis-concept of "slacking" in Gentoo by Steve Dibb
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4 On 16-06-2010 17:28, Steve Dibb wrote:
5 >>> To get this mis-concept out again I need your help.
6 >>> There is no such thing as slacking in Gentoo - no matter how many weeks
7 >>> you ran without commits. It's time to get this understanding back to
8 >>> its healthy counterpart.
9 >
10 > I'm not sure what problem you are trying to tackle.
11 >
12 > The way I see it, there are a few types of "slacker" status.
13 >
14 > There are those who are just plain busy, and can't respond in a timely
15 > manner due to real-life issues. Then there are a group who just don't
16 > have time for Gentoo as a regular maintenance task anymore, but still
17 > participate in discussions, development, etc. Then there's the last
18 > group who are completely unresponsive and inactive -- these are the ones
19 > that are real blockers.
20 >
21 > I don't like the idea of pretending there's no such thing as slacking,
22 > because there is.
23 >
24 > We do have a practical problem (though I don't know how serious it is).
25 > We have healthy roll calls in some herds, but the developers are in a
26 > certain range of active to unresponsive. When the herd is filled up,
27 > this gives developers and users the impression that it *should* be well
28 > tendered, but that may not be the case.
29
30 So everyone can have an idea, I'd suggest looking at the list of the
31 open retirement bugs[1].
32 As there seems to be some confusion about the policies to retire
33 developers, please read the undertakers page[2].
34
35
36 [1] -
37 https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Gentoo+Developers%2FStaff&component=Retirement&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=VERIFIED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=retirement%40gentoo.org&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
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39 [2] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/undertakers/index.xml
40
41 > Steve
42 >
43
44 - --
45 Regards,
46
47 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
48 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections
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