Vacation/devaway system

[Thomas Spura]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:07:51 +0100
Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> there have been quite a few unresponsive maintainers processes in past
> few months + there are people that don't respond to emails in timely
> fashion.
> 
> I'd like to have a system where anyone can see which maintainers are
> not available at the moment and approximate time of return to
> "normal". It would serve several purposes:
>  1. co-maintainers won't wait for main maintainer to fix something
>  2. when high-priority problems arise provenpackages can act
>     immediately instead of waiting for non-responsive maintainer to
> not respond
>  3. This could serve as a factor in speeding up non-responsive
>     maintainer process. For example developer has no away status, but
>     hasn't responded to emails in ~ 2 weeks => gone (numbers just an
>     example)
>  4. Probably a few more...
> 
> I know we have [1], but as you can see, there are 4 people listed on
> that page. That leads me to believe two things:
>  1. Most people don't know the page exists (I didn't until tibbs
>     pointed it out to me)
>  2. It's cumbersome to edit wiki for things like this
> 
> Obviously not every fedora maintainer has shell account so exact
> replica of [2] wouldn't work, but I was thinking some nicer interface
> could be provided. Maybe simple email with special subject line:
> > FAS-name - $messsage

Why not using fedorapeople for that?
I like this idea more, than clicking around in wiki ;-)

How about calling a maintainer non-responsive (and gone), after no bug
comment or mail on a fpo lise or a koji build for longer, than half a
year?
(I know an example for this kind of non-responsiveness, and this would
help here! I'm currently co-maintainer of that package, so I don't
care much about the fast-track procedure or the like...)

	Thomas