This list includes per-file owners, did the script look for 100 CLs in *those
files* named by the rule when deciding to remove the person?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:16 PM Kentaro Hara <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> As of 2022 July, Chromium has 4531 OWNERS files containing 6850 names.
> These include inactive owners, which are one of the sources of slow code
> review latency. One year ago, we cleaned up inactive owners
> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/MpOgk56qKS0/m/HHy7G19oAwAJ>
> and removed ~500 inactive owners. I propose running the clean-up process
> again to keep the OWNERS files updated.
>
> Specifically, a person is identified as an "inactive" owner iff:
>
>    -
>
>    The person didn't commit or review any CLs in the directory they own
>    while there were 100+ CLs that touched the directory in the past 6 months
>    (as of July 6, 2022).
>
> Last year, I gave the inactive owners an option to flip the decision
> manually to stay as an owner, but for this cycle, I'm planning to remove
> the inactive owners unconditionally. The rationale is 1) if the person made
> no contribution on a very active directory for 6 months, it will be
> reasonable to say that the person is inactive, and 2) if there is any
> special reason for it and the person needs to stay as an owner, the person
> can show evidence that they are meeting the owners expectations
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/code_reviews.md#expectations-of-owners>
> and be readded through the standard OWNERS nomination process.
>
> Specifically, people listed in this spreadsheet
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gJbXzTaoITvCDmQaqMmGCvfOngrcFtMPmMsGhHgEV_4/edit#gid=0>
> are identified as inactive owners and will be removed.
>
> I understand this is a tricky proposal. Having your name on OWNERS is an
> award for your previous amazing contributions, and I understand your
> feeling about your name being removed. However, I think it's important to
> keep the OWNERS files updated so that Chromium developers can find active
> owners and improve the code review latency.
>
> If you have any questions / concerns, please let me know. Thanks!
> --
> Kentaro Hara, Tokyo
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