AWOL Maintainer: Krzysztof Kurzawski

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 13:10:13 UTC 2008


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.

josh




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