AWOL Maintainer: Krzysztof Kurzawski

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 11 13:35:23 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:10 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:59 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 08:22 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:45 +0200, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 10:30 +0200, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > >> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >> How so?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I really am going to try to make a good stab at maintaining the
> > > > packages
> > > > > I'm proposing for Fedora, but as I won't list my 'Vacations' in
> > > > public,
> > > > 
> > > > I don't mean to pester, but I'm curious.  You have an averstion to
> > > > documenting when you won't be available online, why?
> > > 
> > > Because some people value privacy and his own business ?
> > > 
> > > Besides 2 weeks may seem ok for an US PoV, cause we do not get vacations
> > > here but in Europe and other parts of the world, people get normally 4/5
> > > weeks of vacation time and it is not rare for people to go on vacation
> > > in places where there is no internet access (and I do not blame them if
> > > they don't want to connect even if available during their vacation).
> > > 
> > > A 2 weeks awol policy seem overly restrictive, although having
> > > co-maintainers is certainly a smart idea for anybody.
> > 
> > +1
> > 
> > I agree - 2 weeks is too restrictive of an AWOL policy.
> 
> Great.  What isn't too restrictive?
> 
> I see lots of "2 weeks sucks!" but no other suggested timeframe.
> 

1 month of unresponsiveness I think would be reasonable.

-sv





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