-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 02/15/15 01:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/14/2015 06:38 PM, Christopher Head wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:49:56 +0200 Markos Chandras >> <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >>> You don't have to participate to the discussions in the mailing >>> lists :) You can just contribute code! Even a single patch a >>> month or so is better than nothing >> >> Forgive me for hijacking the thread, but, the “or so” in the >> above isn’t all that flexible. >> >> See section 3.k of >> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3>. >> > >> > No one is going to boot you for inactivity if you have nothing to > do. You might get an "are you alive?" email, but assuming you > answer within a few weeks, "all my work is done" is the best reason > to be doing nothing. > > That is true yes. There is a difference between "I have nothing to do" and "I am not interested in doing anything anymore". If you only maintain one package and you commit once a year so be it :) It's a volunteering project so nobody can actually force you to maintain a certain rate of commits per $time. In case you appear inactive, people will send you a fair amount of emails over a significant period of time before they start the retirement process
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