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 -private;

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 the

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 at

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 interesting

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

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