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Bug 64840 (spb) - Retire: Stephen Bennett (spb)
Summary: Retire: Stephen Bennett (spb)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: spb
Product: Gentoo Developers/Staff
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Retirement (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Retirement Admin
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Reported: 2004-09-21 04:52 UTC by Daniel Black (RETIRED)
Modified: 2021-02-03 08:01 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---


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Excerpts (spb.txt,6.38 KB, text/plain)
2008-04-28 02:31 UTC, Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED)
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Description Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-21 04:52:27 UTC
 
Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-21 05:22:12 UTC
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 :-)
Comment 2 Otavio Piske (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-21 20:20:47 UTC
Stephen have been helping Gentoo/FBSD project with a lot of things. I can help him in anything related to Gentoo/FBSD.
Comment 3 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-09-22 02:41:55 UTC
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@
Comment 4 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-01 08:52:25 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-07 09:31:55 UTC
I'm back online.
Comment 6 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-15 00:58:10 UTC
any progress recruiters?
Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-20 14:54:52 UTC
fixed in cvs.
Comment 8 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-31 01:30:04 UTC
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.
Comment 9 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-12 12:53:05 UTC
Your link shows you wrong.
Comment 10 Christian Heim (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-12 16:28:37 UTC
(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 ...
Comment 11 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-12 16:55:40 UTC
Last I knew the criterion was at leat 60 days' complete inactivity. Are you saying I fulfil that criterion at this point in time?
Comment 12 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-13 02:01:06 UTC
(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?
Comment 13 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-01-13 02:11:54 UTC
at the time of comment, Mark's link was correct
Comment 14 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-13 12:11:54 UTC
And at time of my comment, it wasn't. Anyway, I asked a question and haven't gotten an answer yet.
Comment 15 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-13 23:51:12 UTC
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.
Comment 16 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-14 00:59:15 UTC
(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).
Comment 17 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-14 19:46:16 UTC
(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. 
Comment 18 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-14 20:19:03 UTC
(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...
Comment 19 Stephen Bennett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-14 22:39:41 UTC
(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.
Comment 20 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-15 03:06:39 UTC
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.
Comment 21 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 01:34:02 UTC
Please proceed with retirement procedures, reference bug 216219, however use this bug for processing.
Comment 22 Mauricio L. Pilla (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:01:14 UTC
Fixed in the forums.
Comment 23 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:09:53 UTC
- Removed gentoo/developer cloak on freenode
- Removed #gentoo-dev access
- Reassigned all remaining bugs
Comment 24 Mike Doty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:13:19 UTC
dev/cvs/lists/ldap done
Comment 25 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:21:36 UTC
- Removed from proj/ pages.
Comment 26 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 02:31:47 UTC
Created attachment 151217 [details]
Excerpts
Comment 27 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 16:11:45 UTC
- removed from metadata.xml files
- removed from all herds
Comment 28 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-28 16:38:58 UTC
Planet done. Retirement procedure is completed.
Comment 29 Christina Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-02 15:37:54 UTC
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!
Comment 30 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-05-05 07:12:11 UTC
Stephen received his files and has his forward set up already.