The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
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The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
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Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#2Top notch communication skills on display.
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#3Testing people outages is a good thing for any team or organization. I always look at multi-week holidays as an opportunity to identify knowledge / skills / activities that I (or another person) provide(s) cover for.
None of us will be around forever. Some of our software might be...
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#4Testing people outages is a good thing for any team or organization. I always look at multi-week holidays as an opportunity to identify knowledge / skills / activities that I (or another person) provide(s) cover for. None of us will be around forever. Some of our software might be...
Alternative organization discovers basic organizational concept: vacations.
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#5Not familiar with Kernel maintainers but do some never take full 2-week long holidays??
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#6Testing people outages is a good thing for any team or organization. I always look at multi-week holidays as an opportunity to identify knowledge / skills / activities that I (or another person) provide(s) cover for. None of us will be around forever. Some of our software might be...
This and insider threat mitigation is exactly why audit standards in regulated industries include mandatory vacations.
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#7Not familiar with Kernel maintainers but do some never take full 2-week long holidays??
If in US, that'd be once in a lifetime - e.g. for your honey (half) moon.
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#8Testing people outages is a good thing for any team or organization. I always look at multi-week holidays as an opportunity to identify knowledge / skills / activities that I (or another person) provide(s) cover for. None of us will be around forever. Some of our software might be...
Alternative organization discovers basic organizational concept: vacations.
Not the same, a vacation is a vacation, most people don't think of it as people outages. Most work will just be queued up until the person comes back or worse the person will be contacted during vacation to answer questions, provide information or do some work. Being hyper aware of this means no contact for the individual while on vacation and watching that work is not being queued up for them. They should not have to catch up to emails and catch up to slack conversations when they get back. A return from vacation should be truly refreshing not overwhelming.
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#9Not familiar with Kernel maintainers but do some never take full 2-week long holidays??
In the US, a decent company will give you three weeks total vacation. To get more than that can require decades of service (eg four weeks after 10 years with the company).
To “squander” two thirds of the allotment in one go is rare.
Re: The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
#10Testing people outages is a good thing for any team or organization. I always look at multi-week holidays as an opportunity to identify knowledge / skills / activities that I (or another person) provide(s) cover for. None of us will be around forever. Some of our software might be...
This and insider threat mitigation is exactly why audit standards in regulated industries include mandatory vacations.
My favorite part of working in banking. Minimum week no contact per year. All these other industries would call me about (trivial) things when I was "off". Regulations forced people to respect (some) time off