Sent to Rosanne only, meant to send it to the list as a comment to this thread.
James McKenzie -----Forwarded Message----- >From: James Mckenzie <[email protected]> >Sent: Jun 29, 2009 6:36 PM >To: Rosanne DiMesio <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Removing active maintainers > >Rosanne DiMesio <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Removing active >maintainers >> >>On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:23 +0200 >>Remco <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Rosanne DiMesio<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > That would still leave the test results sitting there unprocessed for >>> > weeks, which leaves a pretty bad impression on the users who submitted >>> > them. Test results for apps without maintainers get processed by the >>> > admins within 24 hours. >>> >>> How about mailing admins after 24 hours? Maintainers are useful to >>> offload tasks of admins. If they are away for a while, admins just get >>> the mail as if there were no maintainer. If you have to remove a >>> maintainer every time he can't respond in 24 hours, you won't have >>> many left after a while. >>> >>> Remco >> >>Nobody's suggesting a 24 hour time limit for maintainers. >> >>As for emailing the admins, I know I turned off emails from the AppDB to >>avoid having my mailbox overwhelmed with hundreds of useless notices every >>day, >>and I doubt I'm the only one who did this. >>http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14755 needs to be fixed first for any >>solution that involves emailing >>admins to be viable. > >I see several good ideas here: > >1. Maintainers should be able to mark themselves as not available. No reason >should be required. >2. Admins should have the ability to suspend a maintainer for non-response. >There are several reasons for not responding and most of them would be >considered an emergency. >3. Any maintainer who fails, after three suspensions, to properly carry out >the functions of being a maintainer, should be banned for a specific period of >time, increases to a complete ban. >4. What maintainers have to do to maintain their status should be posted on >the Maintainers page when you sign up and a reminder message every 90 days or >so should be sent out to keep maintainers honest. >5. Maintainers should be given the option of gracefully resigning when they >no longer can perform the duties of their position. > >James McKenzie > >> >>-- >>Rosanne DiMesio <[email protected]> >> >>
