On 11/02/2012 04:56 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:44:06 +0000
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/02/2012 04:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

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<johannbg@gmail.com> writes:

On 11/02/2012 03:32 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:12:56PM +0000, "Jóhann B.
Guðmundsson" wrote:

Dead/un-maintained packages need to be removed/reassigned at the
very *beginning* of an new development cycle so feature owners
and others working in the community are dealing with active and
actively maintained packages.

How exactly are you going to force maintainers who go missing to do
so at a prescheduled time?  Real life is seldom that convenient.

If at this point we dont have any process that can actively tell if a
maintainer is present and active within the project then we have
bigger fish to fry then the feature process...

If we have problem A and problem B, can't we work on both at the same
time? :)

Seriously it should not be anymore complex than monitoring last login
into the relevant infrastructure pieces to determine if the relevant
maintainer is active or not.

bash script + a cron job should suffice to achieve just that.

It's not at all that simple, I'm afraid.

How long since last activity do you consider someone 'inactive' ?

What if the packages that maintain simply don't need any changes?

What if they are on vacation?

What if they are active on package A, but not doing something on
package B that you wish they would?

I've long wanted to revamp our process.
I welcome concrete proposals to do so.

Surely if an individual has not logged into for several months into our infrastructure he must be inactive no?

Bash script + a cron job that monitors login should suffice to check and even email him asking him to confirm if he is active encase he has a low maintenance component and only logs in when something is filed  ;)

JBG
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