On 08/30/10 08:20, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > 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.
Please no.
