[gentoo-dev] changes to staffing-needs page and project pages

2008-04-02 Thread Marius Mauch
Since a few weeks ago project pages can contain a new section to list open positions within the project that require fresh blood (thanks to neysx for implementing this). Historically those were only listed centrally http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/index.xml, which had a number

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: > How does having the average time between commits be at most a week > sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone. -- Best regards, Wulf signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread joshua jackson
Wulf C. Krueger wrote: On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: > How does having the average time between commits be at most a week > sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone. -

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Auty
Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal survey[1], taking any kind of action against inf

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal survey[1], taking any kind

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. This means that you should have devaway on. That assumption is false. If there was a need to do weekly commits and the dev in question couldn't manage it, it would be wise to expect that he ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Mike Auty
Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. I can see your point, I was more thinking about developers who have maybe one or two small packages that don't have many version bumps or bugs. They may be entirely able to respond to securit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Wulf C. Krueger kirjoitti: On Wednesday, 02. April 2008 22:46:16 Petteri Räty wrote: How does having the average time between commits be at most a week sound and if it goes under that, undertakers will get a notification? It sounds like you're trying to get rid of someone. I don't have numb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Brown
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues > either. This means that you should have devaway on. So if you don't maintain enough packages to commit on average once a week, you're not worth hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. I can see your point, I was more thinking about developers who have maybe one or two small packages that don't have many version bumps or bugs. They may be entirely able

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-libs/swl

2008-04-02 Thread Mark Loeser
It will be removed at the end of the month. 03 Apr 2008; Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> package.mask: mask dev-libs/swl due to dead upstream and not working properly; bug #206163 -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > > Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to > > raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. > > Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one > problem in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Freeman
Jan Kundrát wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: If you can't manage weekly commits, you can't respond to security issues either. This means that you should have devaway on. That assumption is false. If there was a need to do weekly commits and the dev in question couldn't manage it, it would be wise t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Petteri Räty wrote: Mike Auty kirjoitti: Petteri Räty wrote: Defining required amount of activity for ebuild devs. I would like us to raise the required amount of activity for ebuild devs. Given that the low number of developers is ranked as our number one problem in Donnie's informal survey

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As others have commented, I don't agree with this point. Also, you're > forgetting we have quite a few people working on this project and > that we have many different roles. And just remember Diego's post, where he by accident accused a d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2008-04-02 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 02-04-2008 21:21:25 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > Would it make more sense to just make a policy that failure to maintain > packages that you're maintainer on will result in getting removed as the > maintainer, with said packages going up for grabs? Devs who keep claiming > packages only t