Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> I like the general idea, here are a few points/questions:
>
> Have a procedure to not receive the mail in the future (perhaps making it
> possible to (manually, via email?) re-enable at some later time)
The best results are achieved if everyone participates so I'd rather find
ways to make it painless for everybody first. But knowing how diverse the
opinions are, we will probably have to do something like this.
In that case, if someone opts-out, it might be interesting to have
heuristics to replace the missing data.
> > If the maintainer doesn't respond, he automatically enters the MIA
> > process and the package is quickly marked as needing help/attention
> > from someone else.
>
> How long is the time span after the maintainer enters MIA? Perhaps after X
> unanswered mails?
No idea, that's up for discussions.
The system would try to not send emails when someone is in VAC. But yes, “a
ping every X weeks and if Y pings are left unanswered then he enters the
MIA process” could be ok.
Cheers,
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