Hi guys, While examining old mail aliases, I found a bunch that seem to apply to some folk that are in a weird half-developer state. They have mail aliases that point just to a single address - could you please check them for inactivity to see if they need retiring (this will be really hard, since they only exist as mail aliases), or if they are active, promote them to proper user accounts (non-ebuild developers probably). First set: ---------- See woodpecker:/var/mail/alias/gwn/ aja bahadir haimat martin mluisser nadi sputnik tph (sirseoman is in there as well, but he does have an account). All of them seem only to be mentioned in a really old GWN: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041229-newsletter.xml Second set: ----------- (all under /var/mail/alias/) misc/kage-chan users/parapente users/sandymac
nightmorph: as a docs guy, maybe you know more of these people with a half-dev status.
(In reply to comment #1) > nightmorph: as a docs guy, maybe you know more of these people with a half-dev > status. > Negative. The name "aja" sounds vaguely familiar, perhaps from two years ago or so, and sirseoman is some kinda dev, isn't he? The rest haven't had anything to do with the GDP, GWN, translators, or had their names on any documentation etc. as far as I know.
(In reply to comment #0) > Hi guys, > > While examining old mail aliases, I found a bunch that seem to apply to some > folk that are in a weird half-developer state. > > They have mail aliases that point just to a single address - could you please > check them for inactivity to see if they need retiring (this will be really > hard, since they only exist as mail aliases), or if they are active, promote > them to proper user accounts (non-ebuild developers probably). > > First set: > ---------- > See woodpecker:/var/mail/alias/gwn/ > aja bahadir haimat martin mluisser nadi sputnik tph > (sirseoman is in there as well, but he does have an account). > > All of them seem only to be mentioned in a really old GWN: > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20041229-newsletter.xml Since gwn is Chris/neysx territory, how about adding them ? :) Also sirseoman *is* a GWN translator iirc.
sirseoman has an account and is in the roll-call. He committed German GWNs 2007-05-01. Maybe someone did him a favour and created the alias before he was recruited? Never heard of the others. Same kind of favour? Punt them. If they are of any use, we'll hear from them :)
klieber/ramereth, wasn't/isn't sandymac a sponsor of some sort? I thought i remember seeing him in infra back when i was doing infra stuff As to the others, i'll send mails out to them and try to figure out who they are.
Which GWN aliases are you talking about, exactly? I know who should be on the main gwn-feedback and gwn-writers aliases. For any of the translations aliases, I would have the foggiest idea.
what's the status of this bug? :)
(In reply to comment #5) > klieber/ramereth, wasn't/isn't sandymac a sponsor of some sort? I > thought i remember seeing him in infra back when i was doing infra stuff sandymac is a University of Florida sysadmin. He worked with setting up our initial rsync infrastructure that we know today and he provided and still provides the rsync mirror located at UF. I believe that's rsync1.us.gentoo.org or rsync2.us.gentoo.org. He was on infra at one point as the rsync admin/POC.
Ok, so sandymac and sirseoman are accounted for in the list, but none of the others thusfar. Maybe promote sandymac to an account rather than just a mail alias if he's still active?
Maybe we should CC them on this bug so they can explain their involvement with Gentoo. We could decide if it justifies a @gentoo.org account or not after that. If they don't respond it would mean they are missing in action and we could pursue the standard retirement due to inactivity procedures. What do you guys think?
(In reply to comment #10) > Maybe we should CC them on this bug so they can explain their involvement with > Gentoo. We could decide if it justifies a @gentoo.org account or not after > that. If they don't respond it would mean they are missing in action and we > could pursue the standard retirement due to inactivity procedures. > > What do you guys think? > Seems reasonable to me. I don't know any of them except perhaps for martin and sputnik, although that old GWN brings back memories --- I remember it.
CCing everybody on the list just like I wrote in comment #10. Guys, please tell us what is your current level of involvement with Gentoo so we can decide if it justifies leaving your accounts in place.
I've mailed sputnik, tph, mluisser and martin since they have no corresponding bugzilla accounts. mluisser's mail address (the one @gentoo.org mail is being redirected to) is dead. Unknown recipient. So this account can be deleted.
I was a transalter for the very old GWN. Some weeks ago, I send a mail to the GMN team, to translate some stuff from the GMN to german. Regards, tph
I'm a retired GWN translator, you can remove alias. Cheers
Hi all, I have translated the GWN some time ago. No active Gentoo-related duties now. But I still use this mail address (alias) for private Gentoo-related stuff like the Gentoo forums. Would you mind to leave this alias for me or do you really have to remove it? Kind regards, Matthias
I'm a retired GWN translator, you can remove the alias
I'm also a retired GWN translator, my email alias (nadi) can be deleted.
Removed myself from CC list.
Okay. Infra, please process the first part of those "retirements" and remove aliases for: bahadir, nadi, sputnik, haim, tph and mluisser. Guys, this doesn't mean we don't appreciate your contributions, it just means they don't justify you having those aliases. We will be happy to recruit any of you via normal recruitment ways as regular developers if you are still interested.
Finally saw my cc on this while cleaning out the spam directory. I'm a retired GWN contributor and tester for AMD64. Haven't been particularly active for more than a year. About all I use the email for is my logon here. Feel free to kill it - I can just create a new account here if I want to post an ebuild. Someday, when I have more time, I'll try to get recruited again.
Any news on this bug? Why isn't the first part of removals processed yet?
Bump!
removing undertakers alias.
Okay. Moving it to infra-bugs. Accounts to be removed: bahadir, nadi, sputnik, haim, tph, mluisser and aja.
Yet another bump. Are things done? Can this bug be closed?
The following aliases have been removed: aja bahadir haim haimat kage-chan martin mluisser nadi sputnik Guessing this is fixed now.
