Re: [gentoo-dev] About some developers in devaway status that maybe are no longer active at all

[Pacho Ramos]

El vie, 08-07-2011 a las 17:02 +0300, Markos Chandras escribió:
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> On 08/07/2011 04:31 μμ, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Due me recently taking xsane due it being not fixed/updated for a long
> > time, I noticed its maintainer was in devaway since 2010 September.
> >
> > Maybe they should be pinged and retired if no reply is received like
> > done with other cases. What do you think? :-/
> >
> > That people that seems to be inactive for a long time look to be the
> > following:
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/devaway/
> >
> > battousai -> Already in retirement process (but looks stalled since end
> > 2010, not sure why, probably retirement team didn't have time?) ->
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34864
> >
> > blackace -> not sure about his current status, looks like he will move
> > to staffer per https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45816 , in that
> > case, maybe his devaway status could be removed.
> >
> > falco -> doesn't seem to be active for a long time
> >
> > fox2mike -> the same case
> >
> > markusle -> already handled in
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105599
> >
> > mrpouet -> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266794
> >
> > phosphan -> looks to be unavailable for some months :-/
> >
> > tanderson -> Looks to not have committed for a long time, but I think he
> > had other responsibilities in Gentoo (maybe the same applies to other
> > people listed here)
> >
> > titefleur -> already handled in
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195714
> >
> > vorlon -> looks to not have committed everything to the tree since 2010
> >
> >
> >
> > As some people are already being retired (like mrpouet), I thought that
> > would be interesting to start dropping them from metadatas of packages
> > they maintain, moving them to their respective herds or to
> > maintainer-needed (after sending a mail to gentoo-dev announcing what
> > packages are up to grabs). I can do this if you want.
> >
> >
> > There are also some devaway entries that could probably be updated or
> > removed by affected developers :-/
> >
> > Best regards and thanks for taking care.
> Hi,
>
> Truth is that we do not touch metadata.xml entries or project pages
> until infra people process the accounts of the inactive developers. When
> a developer is being processed by the infrastructure team, then we clean
> metadata.xml entries and the project pages. Additionally, we announce
> the orphaned packages in -dev-announce mailing list. Here[1] you can see
> the steps we follow to retire a developer.
> If you want to see the pending retirements, search bugzilla for bugs
> assigned to retirement@g.o.
> As a side note, undertakers team is understaffed so we are not very fast
> in spotting and warning inactive developers. You can always help us if
> you want. Just drop an email to us.
>
> [1]:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/undertakers/
> - --
> Regards,
> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2


Thanks for the link

The problem of the current steps order is that, until we "Wait for
Infrastructure, Planet and Forums admins to retire developer in question
before proceeding further." (first step of point 8), some months pass
with bugs being ignored and ebuilds getting outdated and buggy. Why not
make the cleanup at first "point 8" step? I mean, just after it's
decided at point 7 to retire the development, try to get bugs and
packages properly reassigned as soon as possible to prevent them from
get unattended for a long time, and, after that, proceed with the
remaining steps. What do you think?