On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:36:50 +0200
Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > 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

OK, thanks for the clarification—I was honestly under the impression
that, to be a dev, one was *expected* to pick up a lot of packages and
spend a lot of time. Good to know that’s not the case.
-- 
Christopher Head

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