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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm curious who had the brain dead idea to retire Gentoo developers |
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> that are still interested in the distro, that maintain low activity |
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> packages for herds that are stretched way too thin, and are still |
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> contributing to the distro in many ways other than direct CVS commits |
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> (e.g. overlays, user support, providing hardware to other devs, etc). |
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> I could MAYBE understand it if they're consuming some valuable |
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> resource that we need to free up by retiring them. But instead they |
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> get a nasty-gram about their impending retirement and decide if that's |
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> how they are to be treated that they can be retired. When they finally |
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> want to contribute again they have the lovely uphill of our dreadfully |
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> painful recruitment process. |
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> I'm really just trying to understand the sense in this. |
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Often people stop maintaining packages. We use heuristics to detect |
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these people. These are based on commits and bug activity, along with |
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a whitelist for non-ebuild developers (forum moderators, irc ops, pr |
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people, and so forth.) They are just heuristics; they are obviously |
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not perfect. I'd be happy to just add steev to the whitelist for 12 |
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months and then see where we are then (so he stops showing in the |
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report). |
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> Doug Goldstein |
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