Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

[Markos Chandras]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:40:51 Roy Bamford wrote:
> On 2009.05.06 19:32, Peter Faraday Weller wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 01:45 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:45:14 AllenJB wrote:
> >
> > [..snip..]
> >
> > > I am sure there are some developers which can offer a great amount
> >
> > of time to
> >
> > > help/revibe slacking or dead projects ( e.g. userrel, newsletters
> >
> > etc ). The
> >
> > > thing is that leadership on several projects is inactive hence
> >
> > users
> > or devs
> >
> > > who are willing to help are getting demotivated. It would be really
> >
> > nice each
> >
> > > individual project to perform a clean up like:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > Looking 'active' is very important to attract new people to
> >
> > project.
> >
> > > Is this so hard?
>
> [snip]
>
> > The only issue I have with the idea is that projects with dead
> > members
> > and slacking leaders are unlikely to perform such a task, so you'll
> > never get any updates from them, so devs will be demotivated to work
> > on
> > $project, and thus we enter the vicious cycle again...
> >
> > welp
>
> Welp,
>
> Not so.
>
> These projects would be delegated upwards to the council and either
> scrapped offically, or some recruitment process started to breath new
> life into them.
>
> Maybe dead projects are cleaned like treecleaners ?
Indeed. No need to have 100 projects while 80 of them are considered dead. 
Cleaning them should be another assignment for treecleaners or a new group of 
developers who are willing to do this. I think treecleaners have enough to do 
with all the dead packages on the tree :P 
-- 
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sound/Sunrise]
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org