Bugzilla Bug 64840

Excuse the fat finger. Take 2:

Stephen has been very active on #gentoo-bsd and has contributed various fixes in #gentoo-dev. Especially of note is bug 2938 which include patches that ferringb says "are pretty good". Now just ponder for a moment at the significance of that.

A lot of other bugs of his have been very clean and precise to fixing the exact cause of the fault of ebuilds in general.

Currently he's working on bsd init stuff. That needs a lot of tender lovin' care.

g2boojum, ka0ttic and angusyoung are keen to get him on his feet with the BSD stuff and I'll mentor the general ins and outs of gentoo.

Stephen declined to offer to go by pornstar and wants to stay with spb@g.o
(recruites - Its your discression if this 3 letter stuff is acceptable though :-)

Stephen have been helping Gentoo/FBSD project with a lot of things. I can help
him in anything related to Gentoo/FBSD.

Stephen also has my help and support regarding anything, BSD-related or not.

P.S.  Removing my email address since I get mail from bsd@

I'm going to be unreachable for a few days as of the 2nd/3rd October, since I'm
going off to university. I should be online again after a few days, but I'll
probably still be fairly busy. With any luck I'll be able to respond to any
communication by the end of the week though.

I'm back online.

any progress recruiters?

fixed in cvs.

I think we should reopen this for retirement.

His last commit for Gentoo was quite awhile back:

http://cia.vc/stats/author/spb

And his last comment on a bug was even longer than that if my bugzilla search
was right.

Your link shows you wrong.

(In reply to comment #9)
> Your link shows you wrong.

I'm sorry, just because you committed three things (which could have been done
easily by proxy or peper - for the sake of argument), doesn't qualify you to
close the bug ...

Last I knew the criterion was at leat 60 days' complete inactivity. Are you
saying I fulfil that criterion at this point in time?

(In reply to comment #11)
> Last I knew the criterion was at leat 60 days' complete inactivity. Are you
> saying I fulfil that criterion at this point in time?
> 


Come on....you think a few commits every 3-6 months actually makes you active?

at the time of comment, Mark's link was correct

And at time of my comment, it wasn't. Anyway, I asked a question and haven't
gotten an answer yet.

This bug was opened due to a suspected period of inactivity, however, CVS shows
that spb commits about once a month. Whether anyone thinks thats 'enough' is a
personal opinion, but once a month is not an inactive dev.
Closing bug.

(In reply to comment #15)
> This bug was opened due to a suspected period of inactivity, however, CVS shows
> that spb commits about once a month. Whether anyone thinks thats 'enough' is a
> personal opinion, but once a month is not an inactive dev.
> Closing bug.
> 


Once a month?  Please look at the link again.  His last commit to Gentoo was in
June (and that was two very minor commits to the devmanual).  His last commit
for an ebuild before then was in early June.

He is also the QA lead, and I can not see much progress with QA bugs in that
area (besides the ones I have started to do since I came back).

(In reply to comment #16)
> Once a month?  Please look at the link again. His last commit to Gentoo was in
> June (and that was two very minor commits to the devmanual).  His last commit
> for an ebuild before then was in early June.

DevRel policy for retiring due to inactivity is summed up nicely here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/policy.xml#doc_chap2_sect1

spb's commit activity is viewable here: http://cia.vc/stats/author/spb
Since May he has 17 commits posted, so over 9 months that is an average of 1
commit a month. He did not commit anything in July, October, or Novemember;
however he is not currently in violation of any activity requirements. 

> He is also the QA lead, and I can not see much progress with QA bugs in that
> area (besides the ones I have started to do since I came back).

I suggest that you look to the project before opening up a devrel issue on the
status of the QA team wrt their leads direction for the team, or lack there of.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0048.html: states that you must be a
dev for 4 months to join QA, does not indicate must be consecutive 4 months.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/qa/index.xml?r1=1.16&r2=1.17
 indicates that spb has been lead since Sept 2006. QA team is 5 months past due
on an election.
halcy0n, it looks to me like you have options before you that you have not yet
pursued, perhaps you may like to do so now. 

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > Once a month?  Please look at the link again. His last commit to Gentoo was in
> > June (and that was two very minor commits to the devmanual).  His last commit
> > for an ebuild before then was in early June.
> 
> DevRel policy for retiring due to inactivity is summed up nicely here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/policy.xml#doc_chap2_sect1
> 
> spb's commit activity is viewable here: http://cia.vc/stats/author/spb
> Since May he has 17 commits posted, so over 9 months that is an average of 1
> commit a month. He did not commit anything in July, October, or Novemember;
> however he is not currently in violation of any activity requirements. 
> 

If you look at the activity again, you're including his commits to paludis
which doesn't count towards gentoo activity in my view. At the time of the
comment made on Dec 31st, the last commit he made to a Gentoo repo was on June
25, 2007 with the next one happening on Jan 2, 2008. Correct me if I'm wrong
but that appears to be inactivity for just over 6mo.

Just my 2c from a non-biased POV...

(In reply to comment #18)
> If you look at the activity again, you're including his commits to paludis
> which doesn't count towards gentoo activity in my view. At the time of the
> comment made on Dec 31st, the last commit he made to a Gentoo repo was on June
> 25, 2007 with the next one happening on Jan 2, 2008. Correct me if I'm wrong
> but that appears to be inactivity for just over 6mo.
> 
> Just my 2c from a non-biased POV...

Which fails to take into account anything I did during that time that wasn't
entirely based around a Gentoo CVS repository.

Ramereth is correct; I did count the paludis work in error. Spb, while
contributions to the paludis project are valid and considerably appreciated by
anyone who uses paludis, those commits do not count towards Gentoo in the sense
that you are implying. Contributions on other FOSS projects do not count as
contributions made to this project unless it is hosted on Gentoo infra.

That said, spb has made 3 commits in the past two months, which classifies him
as an active dev. He cannot be penalized for previous inactivity when he is
active now. We offer any inactive dev the option to become active again, spb
simply turned it around without us asking him.

Please proceed with retirement procedures, reference bug 216219, however use
this bug for processing.

Fixed in the forums.

- Removed gentoo/developer cloak on freenode
- Removed #gentoo-dev access
- Reassigned all remaining bugs

dev/cvs/lists/ldap done

- Removed from proj/ pages.

Created an attachment (id=151217) [edit]
Excerpts

- removed from metadata.xml files
- removed from all herds

Planet done. Retirement procedure is completed.

Please forward spb's email to spbennett+gentoo@gmail.com for the standard
duration for retired devs; please place his home dir tar in a location for his
download. Thank you!

Stephen received his files and has his forward set up already.