Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@××××××××××××××××××××××××.es>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:19:46
Message-Id: 1356077928.2133.26.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements by Doug Goldstein
1 El jue, 20-12-2012 a las 21:21 -0600, Doug Goldstein escribió:
2 > I'm curious who had the brain dead idea to retire Gentoo developers
3 > that are still interested in the distro, that maintain low activity
4 > packages for herds that are stretched way too thin, and are still
5 > contributing to the distro in many ways other than direct CVS commits
6 > (e.g. overlays, user support, providing hardware to other devs, etc).
7 >
8 > I could MAYBE understand it if they're consuming some valuable
9 > resource that we need to free up by retiring them. But instead they
10 > get a nasty-gram about their impending retirement and decide if that's
11 > how they are to be treated that they can be retired. When they finally
12 > want to contribute again they have the lovely uphill of our dreadfully
13 > painful recruitment process.
14 >
15 > I'm really just trying to understand the sense in this.
16
17 I have just explained it at:
18 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101792#c17

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