Hi,
This came up in the EPEL SIG meeting this week -- there seems to not be enough awareness of the vacation calendar, because it's not really well documented:
- it is mentioned in the non-responsive maintainer policy: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_... - it's basically a shared calendar on fedocal that anyone can write to, so the format is undefined (though most entries start with a FAS name) - https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/list/vacation/ - it was a wiki table before, but looking at the history there really wasn't much use https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Vacation&offset=&limit=5...
Should this be part of a contributor's onboarding flow too? Seems like only old-timers and those trying to follow the non-responsive process would run across the vacation calendar now, so the chance of the person they're trying to reach having entered their vacation in the system seems rather low.
Also, I wonder what tooling we can add around this. e.g. maybe we can add this to pingou's fedora-active-user so it can both check if someone is on vacation, and also enter someone's vacation status (prompt the user for start+end date and some freeform explanation)
Best regards,