On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rodney Waldhoff wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>
> > We've done this on James, as well.  However, we consider more than CVS
> > commits in terms of activity.  And in the one case where someone was
> > mistakenly listed because of a lack of CVS commits, despite being active on
> > the mailing list, he complained.  And rightly so.
>
> Right on.  The act of complaining alone makes one "active".
>
> This isn't kicking anyone out, it's just removing CVS access to avoid
> giving the impresssion that there are 70+ people actively making changes
> to the jakarta-commons CVS tree, when more that 20% of those people
> haven't made any commits.

Correction: "haven't made any commits in at least a year."

>
> I'm more than happy to acknowledge any sort of activity as making one an
> active committer.  In fact, simply indicating that one would like to be
> considered an active committer is more than enough for me.
>
> If someone who hasn't made any commits in a year would like to retain
> access anyway, just say so.  If we remove access now and such a person
> would later like to have access once again, just say so.  "Emeritus
> committer" is the same as "committer", except for what's listed in the
> avail file (the thing that will tell you don't have sufficient "karma"
> to commit to the repository).  A simple post to the list will get one
> added back into that list.  This is an entirely reversible action.
>
> >     --- Noel
>
> - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/>
>

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- Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/>

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