Erik Enge writes: > On 2/24/06, Nikodemus Siivola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Compromise at three months? > > I'm going to have to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see what they think. They > are > afterall the ones affected by this. > > > Month can easily happen if the person is filtering project/lisp mail > > to a separate account or folder and is taking a hiatus, is on an > > extended vacation, or whatever. > > Perhaps. I think a reasonable approach might be: > > - day 1: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and say you will be taking over the project in 30 days if > noone objects > - day 10: reminder > - day 20: reminder > - day 30: reminder > - day 31: clnet admin replies with confirmation of new ownership > > If, in that time, noone on the -devel list nor the owner replies the > project is either abondoned or it needs a new owner anyways, IMHO of > course. > > I may even toss in there to add to the latest news (ie RSS ie planet > lisp) that takeover procedures have been initiated for that project. > > > ...then again, if the policy is to give back the ownership to the > > original person, I don't see any great harm in being more impatient > > and leaving it at one month. > > That's a great point. I think probably the major motivation here is > to be able to apply patches and put out new releases. >
Having worked on projects in the past, I would argue 1 month is not long enough. I've oftne had life get in the way and been forced to put projects I'm working on in the background for a couple of months or I've been slowly working on a project in the background, but have not made an update for a few months etc. 4 weeks can pass very quickly when your busy with work or other projects (think about how long CL gardners has been in existance already! It certainly doesn't seem that long!). Possibly a way might be to set the time according to how long since the project was last updated. For example last Update Take-over Notice Period 18+ months ago 1 month 12 .. 18 months ago 2 months 6 .. 12 months ago 3 months less 6 months ago require response Tim _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
