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On 01/28/2012 03:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> Was reviewing http://dev.gentoo.org/devaway/ and I have seen |
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>> there are a lot of obsolete messages. Could you take a look and |
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>> verify don't have an old .away file in your homes ;) ? |
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> |
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> Might not hurt to generally consider the usefulness of .away |
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> messages in general. If you have one and it doesn't really convey |
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> anything useful, then it might as well not be there. |
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> |
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> If Gentoo is something you only sporadically work at, and you plan |
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> on 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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> |
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> If you normally have one level of availability, and it is going to |
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> be different for some reasonable period of time, then it is useful |
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> so that people know what is going on. |
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> |
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> Useful messages: "I'm on vacation until Feb 8th - check with other |
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> team members in the meantime." "Just started a new job - bear with |
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> me while I hand off responsibilities / get back on my feet in a few |
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> weeks." |
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> |
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> Less useful message: "My job comes first - will not have much time |
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> for Gentoo for the next 30 years but I'll do what I can." |
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> |
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> If things are changing .away is a great tool. If things are going |
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> to impact your level of Gentoo contribution for a long time the |
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> best thing to do is to just change your level of involvement to |
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> suit. Probably not good to be the project lead for Chromium if you |
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> can only look for updates twice a year, and so on. If you maintain |
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> three packages and do the odd arch test and your teammates |
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> generally know that, no real need to advertise - just watch for bug |
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> emails and comment on anything that looks urgent... |
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> |
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> Rich |
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> |
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This has been discussed in the paste and the result was this bug |
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report[1]. But these people who have long standing devaways are not |
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participating on our lists therefore these threads ends up in /dev/null. |
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[1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338829 |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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