Re: Cleaning up the consultants list

Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> writes:

>>>>>> On Sun, 10 May 2026, Andreas K Huettel wrote:
>
>> We have a list of Gentoo consultants at
>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Consultants
>
>> Several of the people on the list are (at least one of):
>
>> a) not active Gentoo developers anymore (and were inactive a while
>>    before being retired);
>
>> b) not actively contributing to Gentoo for a long time;
>
>> c) [not] reasonable entities for someone actually in need of a
>>    problem to get in contact with.
>
>> The list as-is is not particularly fresh or accurate, and the
>> occasional duplication of person-as-consultant and
>> one-man-company-as-consultancy feels silly.
>
>> How should we handle this, how can we provide useful and consistent
>> information?
>
> Following up on this and (since there weren't any replies) CCing all
> listed consultants.
>
> Please reply to [email protected] by 2026-09-10 and let us know:
> a) whether your entry is still valid and accurate,

It is.

> b) if you are listed more than once (e.g. as both a person and
>    a company), which entry should be kept.

N/A.

>
> Entries for which we do not receive a response will be removed from
> the consultant's list.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ulrich

thanks,
sam

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