Opening retirement bug for George has he pre-dates the recruitment bugs.
Opening as George has been inactive for more than 2 months. - Last (viewable) bugzilla activity: 317633: 2010-06-24 22:40:17 - Last CVS activity: 2010-05-10T22:07Z First email sent today.
Ok, this got to that. I thought I'll get organized "in time", but real life stuff always takes longer than expected.. As it says on my away - I was moving between positions and changing country at that. I am actually pretty much done settling, was about to start getting active again. Just give me a week or two.. (btw, there was activity on various mailing lists, including -dev)
If you're ready to start work again, I'm going to close this bug then. I'm happy to hear you're coming back.
Reopening due lack of activity
On my activity: it is indeed a rather busy time in my life (career-wise), although it may get better by summer. Seeing as how nobody steps up to these bugs, I don't really see the reason for reassignment; at least they are nicely groupped like that (assigned to Ada anyway). As for the typical bugs and time requirements: unfortunately, while not strictly a "rocket science", gnat is essentially a gcc compiler. So, it is pretty much on the same level as toolchain-type involvement; with a dose of multilib (two types of compilers, by FSF and ACT) thrown in. Typically bugs are either trivial or require quite a bit of concentration and time set aside specifically for them (see, e.g., #502444, where a few hours od effort lead to partial resolution of some issues, but not a commit, only some remarks that can be used in future efforts..). Thus, I tend to go through these in batches - this is just to explain my pattern of activity. On the retirement: I do not want to create any false impressions (at least this is the type of concern I heard about inactive devs). On the other hand, recent attempts to find somebody esle to take care of these issues did not go that well. Since I can at least periodically contribute, and still have a hope to get Ada into some kind of reasonable shape, eventually, I'd suggest against rush measures for the moment :-).
Thanks for the explanation George :) I noticed this because of ADA maintainance :(, as seems that there are long time pending bugs for months, even stabilizations. Some of that bug reports are related with build issues and, then, I am unsure about ADA status on Gentoo. Currently, looks like ada herd is simply being a place where bugs get reported and forgotten giving a false impression of its packages being maintained :( Maybe some ADA packages should lose their stable keyword at least, also, for example bug 329459 is blocked by bug 421739 (and the first notice is from 2011 if I don't misremember) I can do some commits now if you prefer, but I would like to know if you are ok with the changes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183643 -> OK with adding that RDEPEND to the ebuilds? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216244 -> If it's broken since 2008 and you don't have time to update to the new tree, I would simply treeclean it https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219219 -> Is it using -Werror or similar? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250055 -> Any problem with the provided patches? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250066 -> another polyorb build failure :S https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276568 -> Looks like we already have gnat-gcc:4.6, maybe we should stable that one (or move the full package to testing) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310059 -> Not sure about how to handle it :/ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327043 -> Looks like maintaining so many gnat-gcc slots is really difficult, why not drop that old slots (that also look to not be working) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348418 -> It contains some ebuilds and patches... but they are from 2012, not sure if still valid https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372179 -> this would also be in favor of dropping some old slots https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379983 -> this would need action after we decide what to do regarding having it in testing, dropping old slots... https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402493 -> not sure how to deal with it if we really need this package https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440660 -> it has a patch waiting for review https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453348 -> taking care you don't have time to maintain current assigned packages, wouldn't be better to assign bugs like this to maintainer-wanted *and* CC ada team? (we do that in most cases already) And about your packages: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453822 -> is waiting since Jan 2013, if you are not interested maybe would be better to move it to maintainer-needed (there are people there that bump/fix things when they have time, also maybe that way others could get the package as they see it's officially "maintainer-needed") https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466076 -> if that is still the case maybe should be treecleaned https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472696 -> maybe the patch should be reviewed if possible
Any news on this? :/
> Any news on this? :/ Sorry about the delay. Now is the hottest period for me, so I can't promise much unitl the end of May, when I should have more time. Plus this war we have on our hands.. (I am Ukrainian after all) - incidentally, it seems that traffic on most of our lists is at the all-time-low atm? I doubt we have that many ukrainians..
Ok, trying to get around to at least some of these. One is even closed :). SOrry it takes so long..
Any updates on this? Not sure if all this ADA stuff deserves to be kept in the tree as looks so hard to get their bugs fixed :|
>(In reply to Pacho Ramos) > ADA This is about Ada, which is no acronym, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)].
- metadatas, projects and bugs cleaned
retire then
Nothing on planet/universe and no blog.
Yeah guys, I was hoping I'd be able to be at least a tiny bit productive, but I've got way too much stuff going on in life right now and getting anything done in Ada requires a lot of effort and concentration - its a toolchain-level beast (there is a talk of combining it with toolchain now, but that was attempted before and was decided against). I am afraid it'll be this way at the very least until next year, so, well.. I guess retire away.. Please just hold off on my access for a week or two - I think I better at least leave a few comments on those Ada-reorg bugs while I can.. It's been a pleasure and great time working on Gentoo (am I the only one left of the "original" devs by now? From before drobbins left btw? I get that impression reading lists). I wish I could do more, I hope I'll be able to at some point again, just can't promise anything right now..
gitolite done
LOG: Running on oystercatcher.gentoo.org for CVS/SVN removal LOG: Removing george from groups
LOG: Running on pigeon.gentoo.org for lists LOG: Removing george from all lists.
LOG: Started on woodpecker.gentoo.org LOG: Found george. LOG: Finished at Sun Apr 2 17:37:22 UTC 2017 with rc=0
LOG: Running on grouse.gentoo.org for bugzilla retire LOG: Found 343769 for george.
Infra done. No wiki and cloak found. Pending: - forums
Forums done. Closing the bug.
