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,

I wonder what "donates back" means. It feels redundant with
"developer(s) on staff" everybody but one just says "yes".

Does it mean contributing back overall? If so, that is implied by having
a developer on staff, I imagine.

> b) if you are listed more than once (e.g. as both a person and
>    a company), which entry should be kept.
>
> Entries for which we do not receive a response will be removed from
> the consultant's list.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ulrich

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