Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:34:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: European vacations (was: Question about voting) Message-ID: <20000916103405.A71517@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000915200847.C4275@freebie.demon.nl>; from wkb@freebie.demon.nl on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 08:08:47PM %2B0200
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[following up to -chat] On Friday, 15 September 2000 at 20:08:47 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:42:52AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 13 September 2000 at 10:41:03 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>> In message <20000913074150.V11227@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Will Andrews writes: >>>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:41:17PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: >>>>> Somehow, a month seems kinda long now. Last time I counted (a few months >>>>> back), we're going to have between 120-150 committers that meet the 12 >>>>> month activity check. >>>> >>>> Sure, a large number are going to vote the first two or three days. But >>>> some simply can't do it except at one or two points in time during a >>>> month's period. So there is still justification for doing it that way. >>> >>> The reason that I changed it from 1 week to 4 weeks was at the request >>> of many Europeans. They are lucky enough to get 3-4 week vacations >>> which they tend to take off all at once. >> >> FWIW, this isn't quite correct. A lot of Europeans get up to 8 weeks > > Well. 8 weeks is a bit overstating it. 25 or 26 days is normal here > in .nl Some people have an additional 12 or 13 days but these are > most of the time to be taken 1 day in each month. I was specifically referring to Germany. When I left Tandem in Frankfurt (admittedly 8 years ago), we were getting 37 days of vacation a year. Other people may not have been getting quite as much, but I don't know of anybody who was getting less than 30. This much vacation is really stupid. We just weren't able to take it all, and it expired at the end of March the following year. March tended to be a month with personnel coverage problems. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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