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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About some developers in devaway status that maybe are no longer active at all
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:21:34
Message-Id: 4E18478E.6030106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About some developers in devaway status that maybe are no longer active at all by Pacho Ramos
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4 On 08-07-2011 17:00, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > El vie, 08-07-2011 a las 19:45 +0300, Markos Chandras escribió:
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11 >> Good point but there is a problem. If we process the metadata.xml,
12 >> project pages and bugs before the infrastructure people process his
13 >> account, and the said developer decides to return, then we need to
14 >> process all the previous files again and restore them to the previous
15 >> state. This is why we do not touch them until the developer is fully
16 >> retired by the infrastructure. This is the only way to ensure that he is
17 >> really gone. The only thing you ( as an individual developer ) can do,
18 >> is to report bugs, wait for some time, and if the slacking developer
19 >> does not touch them, go ahead and fix them. We cannot force people to
20 >> use the devaway system or to provide accurate information about their
21 >> status :-/
22 >>
23 >> - --
24 >> Regards,
25 >> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
26 >
27 > At what step is the retirement process irreversible then? For example,
28 > looking at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266794#c13 I would
29 > start dropping him from metadata.xml as it's already clear the
30 > retirement has started :-/ Maybe we could add a step that makes the
31 > retirement irreversible (with a concrete date) after retirement team
32 > comments in bug report announcing the process has started.
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34 The retirement process evolves with time and with our experience. Markos
35 linked to the last documented process, but after that we've been trying
36 to take care of metadata.xml asap. So as soon as a bug is assigned to
37 infra, we're free to drop people from metadata.xml and reassign bugs.
38 - From that point onwards, if a retirement is stopped, it's the
39 developer's responsibility to add himself back to any packages and to
40 get back to bugs.
41 The processing of herds and teams should still be left to the final step.
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44 - --
45 Regards,
46
47 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
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