Bugzilla Bug 24623

real name: David Holm
email: <dholm@telia.com>
start date: 16 Jul 2003
stop date:  30 Jul 2003 (in 2 weeks, per what seemant told me on channel)
cvs access: no, 
irc: voice

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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2.
3.

Adjusted assignment and CC's as per seemant's instruction.

George

Since I've been approved I'll close this for you. 

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

Whopping 3 commits for the past year, last comment on a bug in August 2005...

Hmmm... Reopenening for retirement.

I'd like to stay on it's just that I don't have a lot of time due to my new job
at the moment.

(In reply to comment #7)
> I'd like to stay on it's just that I don't have a lot of time due to my new job
> at the moment.
> 

Getting your dev status back is a quick process to do when you find that you
have more time.

So, what's up with this bug? Why is it still open? Should it be closed now?

George

(In reply to comment #9)
> So, what's up with this bug? Why is it still open? Should it be closed now?

Because David said he's going to be "more" active last December (2006), his
last activity was back in March (2007 - which is three months from now). See
[1] and [2] for reference.

[¹] http://cia.vc/stats/author/dholm
[²] http://bugday.gentoo.org/bugsgoactivity.php?id=dholm

I don't have any problem with him being around, but he needs to stick around if
he's going to be a Gentoo Developer. From what I can see from ada stuff, there
are quite a few bug open which he could work on.

(In reply to comment #10)
> I don't have any problem with him being around, 
I definitely have nothing against that too :). I just had an impression that
this issue was resolved some time ago and the bug is just lingering behind..
May be we should resolve it with LATER/INVALID or whatever for now?

George

I've been available on IRC ever since I joined Gentoo in '03 and my e-mail has
been working pretty much 99.9% of the time. I made it very clear that it would
take some time until I would have a good enough internet connection while I was
moving. In the meantime I participated in as many online meetings as I could
and delegated important bugs to people who were interested in helping out.
The fact that no one ever contacted me either by e-mail or IRC and that I had
to find out about my (forced) retirement through bugs.g.o felt a tad bit
disrespectful and I kind of lost interest in contributing.

If you still want my help I would consider sticking around but I have not
really seen the point in going on contributing if I'm going to be forcibly
resigned anyway.

(In reply to comment #12)
> I've been available on IRC ever since I joined Gentoo in '03 and my e-mail [..]
> The fact that no one ever contacted me either by e-mail or IRC and that I had
> to find out about my (forced) retirement through bugs.g.o 
Really? This reopening the bug made me think there were some discussions
involved - one would expect at least that much. I guess somebody just had a
"cleanup urge" at that point. Anyway, thanks for clarification and I am sure
glad that you are sticking around David :). I am going to close this bug
therefore. 

George

(In reply to comment #12)
> In the meantime I participated in as many online meetings as I could
> and delegated important bugs to people who were interested in helping out.
> The fact that no one ever contacted me either by e-mail or IRC and that I had
> to find out about my (forced) retirement through bugs.g.o felt a tad bit
> disrespectful and I kind of lost interest in contributing.
> 

It's not about forced retirement. It's about the current way of working. If we
think someone is not active we open the developer bug for retirement and give
enough time for the person in question to notify that they are still alive.

Guess, I'll have to reopen this ...

Dear David,

Possible retirement pending as you haven't shown any activity few months
(according to bugzilla, the last one was 89069: 2007-03-15 20:37:37). If you
are
just away, then please use the devaway system. Please be advised that
devaway may also be considered inactive if it extends past 60 days.

Please reply and advise on your situation. Any developer found to be
inactive for a period in excess of 60 days is subject to be retired. Please
be aware that if we have not heard from you within 2 weeks time, we will
begin the retirement process.
If we do retire you, it's pretty easy to come back when you are ready. Just
do the ebuild/end-quiz again and you're back on.

See the mail on -dev (gonna write that once I'm through the bunch).

Actually I was about to reopen this myself. I thought I would be able to find a
way to fit Gentoo development in the little spare time I have left but I was
too optimistic on that point.
I hope to be able to return in the not too distant future but I agree that
retirement is the best course of action at this time. :/

(In reply to comment #16)
> Actually I was about to reopen this myself. I thought I would be able to find a
> way to fit Gentoo development in the little spare time I have left but I was
> too optimistic on that point.
> I hope to be able to return in the not too distant future but I agree that
> retirement is the best course of action at this time. :/

I'd hope too to see you get back into business, as it ain't a pleasure loosing
people. Please, don't be a stanger.

infra, please retire David.

Moving stuff to the new alias.

This user has been retired by infra-automation (cvs, dev, ldap, bugzie, im,
lists) as of 2007/12/25.
Forums/planet, please do your stuff.

planet, forum-mods: please retire.

forums done

herds.xml taken care of.

project pages taken care of.

metadata.xml done.

#gentoo-dev taken care of.

No bugs to reassign.

planet done

forums still done, so removing us from cc again

All done ;(