On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 16:14, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > It seems to me that people paying less and less attention to devaway > system[1]. As you may see yourselves, few of the entries are 2-3 year old. > This > either means that these devs are inactive since then or that they came back > and just didn't bother updating their status. Is it possible for infra people > to setup a script to notify the developer ( and CC the retirement alias ) > about an old devaway entry? This will help retirement team to track down > inactive devs with ease. Furthermore having so many devs with away messages ( > where only part of the messages reflect the reality ) looks quite bad to > community. I think that a simple script that will search all the devaway > messages and collect those that are >60-90 days is not that difficult to get > implemented. Does anybody have a better approach to deal with this? > > Thanks > > [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/devaway.xml
Sounds good to me, but I'd actually be more interested in having something the other way around; i.e. monitoring for activity in commits, bugzilla, IRC and maybe the -dev mailing list to see if people are still active and send them a message to encourage them to set devaway if they haven't been active in, say, 15 days. Cheers, Dirkjan
