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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> Was reviewing http://dev.gentoo.org/devaway/ and I have seen there are a |
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> lot of obsolete messages. Could you take a look and verify don't have an |
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> old .away file in your homes ;) ? |
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Might not hurt to generally consider the usefulness of .away messages |
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in general. If you have one and it doesn't really convey anything |
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useful, then it might as well not be there. |
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If Gentoo is something you only sporadically work at, and you plan on |
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being that way for years, and you carefully control your |
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responsibilities accordingly, I'm not sure it is necessary to |
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advertise the fact. |
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If you normally have one level of availability, and it is going to be |
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different for some reasonable period of time, then it is useful so |
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that people know what is going on. |
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Useful messages: |
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"I'm on vacation until Feb 8th - check with other team members in the meantime." |
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"Just started a new job - bear with me while I hand off |
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responsibilities / get back on my feet in a few weeks." |
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Less useful message: |
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"My job comes first - will not have much time for Gentoo for the next |
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30 years but I'll do what I can." |
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If things are changing .away is a great tool. If things are going to |
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impact your level of Gentoo contribution for a long time the best |
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thing to do is to just change your level of involvement to suit. |
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Probably not good to be the project lead for Chromium if you can only |
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look for updates twice a year, and so on. If you maintain three |
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packages and do the odd arch test and your teammates generally know |
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that, no real need to advertise - just watch for bug emails and |
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comment on anything that looks urgent... |
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Rich |
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