Project:Infrastructure/Developer away notification

The Gentoo infrastructure project provides Article description::a notification service for alerting developers and community members when a developer is unavailable. This file must manually be created and removed at the beginning and end of the time window.

This service is hooked in to unavailable developers page on www.g.o (updated every 15 minutes) and the special devaway page on dev.g.o.

Creating the .away file
The following steps are also documented on dev.g.o/devaway.

The file of course can be modified using standard text editors.

Removing the file
After the away period has ended, be sure to remove the file:

Line breaks
The away message content should not contain line breaks (newline) characters. When a line break character is encountered it will signal the end of the away message and concatenate the rest of the message.