Anaconda is totally trashing the F18 schedule (was Re: f18: how to install into a LVM partitions (or RAID))

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

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 at zarb.org>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 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 ).
> 
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> Michael Scherer
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