On 12/11/2018 20:47, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:43:20PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no>: >>> (I also wonder if we should just require people to opt in to their >>> DD-ship on a yearly basis instead of doing most of the WAT/MIA dance. If >>> people can't be bothered to reply to a single email saying «yup, another >>> year please» with some reasonable amount of pinging and time to reply, >>> they are effectively MIA, at least if they haven't let people know on >>> -private or similar.) >> >> I support automatically retiring DDs and DMs that don't repond to a >> ping, or don't upload, or don't vote, or otherwise show activity. > > Since last year it already kind of happens for DMs, that are removed > from the keyring. We in the MIA team still manually process all of them > before orphaning the packages, which is the much more nasty task than > you may think, given that apparently some people want to keep being in > Maintainer of stuff despite not uploading for years and having lost the > technical ability to upload years before as well (yes, I'm not kidding).
Might be less nasty if it was done by a cron job / role account, rather than manually by a DD who can be blamed by the inactive maintainer. Cheers, Emilio