On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Doug Goldstein <car...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I'm curious who had the brain dead idea to retire Gentoo developers > that are still interested in the distro, that maintain low activity > packages for herds that are stretched way too thin, and are still > contributing to the distro in many ways other than direct CVS commits > (e.g. overlays, user support, providing hardware to other devs, etc). > > I could MAYBE understand it if they're consuming some valuable > resource that we need to free up by retiring them. But instead they > get a nasty-gram about their impending retirement and decide if that's > how they are to be treated that they can be retired. When they finally > want to contribute again they have the lovely uphill of our dreadfully > painful recruitment process. > > I'm really just trying to understand the sense in this. > -- > Doug Goldstein >
Probably best to give an example.