RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel, once in -private; mainly there is no automated way of tracking them. Most of the time I try to keep this in mind when I feel I may need to contact the author of

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread peloy
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > What would be nice is a mechanism which would allow us to tell the > periods when we're expecting to be totally offline, or have a sparse > connectivity, or ... [...] > This proposal is probably not fully optimal; I may have overlooked > some interesti

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Yann Dirson wrote: > What would be nice is a mechanism which would allow us to tell the > periods when we're expecting to be totally offline, or have a sparse > connectivity, or ... Personally, I always install vacation when I'm away for an extended period of time. Couldn't maintainers

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread Philip Hands
People could always put something in their .plan on master, so you could just finger them. Cheers, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Philip Hands writes: > People could always put something in their .plan on master, so you could > just > finger them. Problems with this is that it is yet another informal method, and it's hardly automatizable - you'll have to finger manually... that does not help much IMHO. Wichert Akkerman

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is > however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel, > once in -private; mainly there is no automated way of tracking them. Please contact netgod

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
This message is mostly aimed at netgod. Martin Schulze writes: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is > > however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel, > > once in -priv

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
Martin Schulze writes: > Please contact netgod at [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I recall his > wnpp database he already has implemented a vacation mechanism. Thanks for the hint. > May I shout "Jehova"? ? Sorry, I'm not sure to understand ? > This could and should be managed easily with >