Re: [gentoo-dev] Improve devaway system

[Steve Dibb]

On 08/30/10 08:20, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 16:14, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>> It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway
>> system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old. This
>> either means that these devs are inactive since then or that they came back
>> and just didn't bother updating their status. Is it possible for infra people
>> to setup a script to notify the developer ( and CC the retirement alias )
>> about an old devaway entry? This will help retirement team to track down
>> inactive devs with ease. Furthermore having so many devs with away messages (
>> where only part of the messages reflect the reality ) looks quite bad to
>> community. I think that a simple script that will search all the devaway
>> messages and collect those that are >60-90 days is not that difficult to get
>> implemented. Does anybody have a better approach to deal with this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/devaway.xml
>
> Sounds good to me, but I'd actually be more interested in having
> something the other way around; i.e. monitoring for activity in
> commits, bugzilla, IRC and maybe the -dev mailing list to see if
> people are still active and send them a message to encourage them to
> set devaway if they haven't been active in, say, 15 days.

Please no.