Michael, Without contributors there is no need for infrastructure, right? ;) To me it means that we need more contributors working on infrastructure (as on every other aspect of the distro) not pruning. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Scherer" <misc@xxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:43:49 PM > Subject: Re: Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or > RAID)) > > Le dimanche 04 novembre 2012 à 13:19 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov a > écrit : > > The point is that such a measurement serves nothing but pissing off > > people. > > You need to track activity on packages - how long bugs stay open > > without response > > (note that this doesn't mean becoming accepted as one might be busy > > with other > > things), how long the package stay with open CVEs, what is the > > usual delay for > > getting to latest upstream, etc. Come up with strategy based on > > such measurement > > and you'll get packagers support for some automated actions against > > packages (NOT > > PEOPLE). > > Measuring people activity means nothing as I think we want MORE > > people to work with > > us not less (even if they do it once in a year). > > P.S. The words in capital letters are such intentionally. > > While I agree that this may make lose some contributions, on the > other > hand, there is some team that have more aggressive pruning > ( infrastructure team, for example ). > > And keeping inactive accounts could cause issue for voting ( ie, if > we > need for some reason to have a quorum of people ), and for sure could > increase the work for various sysadmin tasks in some specific case > ( like if we need to contact all users to make them change their > password and check they did ). > > -- > Michael Scherer > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
