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Hi,
On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly
inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by
looking first at all maintainers who didn't have a source package
signed by (one of) their key(s) in unstable and then excluding from
that anyone who had been seen (with a signed message) by echelon in
the last 6 months.
Of the 191 pings were sent out:
o 34 people's ping bounced[1].
o 28 people replied asking to be retired.
o 29 people replied with various different responses.
o 10 people replied who were active.
o 90 people didn't reply within the 2 month deadline[2].
So to actually do anything about these MIA folks, some decisions had
to be made about what to do with them WRT LDAP, their accounts etc.
There will be 4 states for any given account in LDAP:
o [default]
o Emeritus
o Disabled
o Memorial
The [default] state is what the majority of accounts will be in; I
don't want to call it 'active' because that would be misleading.
The 'emeritus' state is for people who voluntarily retire. Their
accounts are locked and their keys are moved to a separate keyring.
Their email will continue to work for 6 months[a]. They lose vote,
upload and -private reading privileges.
The 'disabled' state is for people who don't respond to maintainer
pings, their email bounces, or whatever - basically someone who's MIA.
Things are the same as 'emeritus', except their email won't continue
to work. After a year in this state the accounts will be purged[b] and
will be available for reuse.
People in 'emeritus' or even 'disabled' can come back at anytime
without going through new-maintainer; provided they can prove they
control the key(s) associated with the account.
The 'memorial' is a special state used for accounts that are disabled
but which we don't want reused to avoid confusion (at best), e.g. with
developers who've passed away.
So, the 34 people who's email bounced and 90 people who didn't reply
will have their account set to the 'disabled' status. The 28 people
who asked to be retired will be set to 'emeritus'. If you know how to
reach any of the people listed in [1] and [2] below, please feel free
to contact them and get them to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Finally, this is only the start of what will hopefully be an ongoing
process; further pings based on other criteria are planned and also
the results of Martin's MIA work will be acted on.
- --
James
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[a] This is an arbitrarily chosen compromise. Whenever I've discussed
this, there are various opinions on what should continue to work
when you retire and for how long. It'd be possible to leave both
email, shell and web working indefinitely but if people aren't
active in Debian (and let's face it, it doesn't take much effort
to be considered active) I don't see why they should continue to
use what are essentially Debian perks indefinitely. On the other
hand, I can see why people would want their email to continue to
work (at least, for a period of time) so they could transition to
a new address (especially if they use their Debian address in the
work as the upstream maintainer of a package, for example).
[b] Any files associated with the account will be either removed or
moved to some holding area.
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[1]
Mail bounces
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Anthony C. Zboralski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Boris D. Beletsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Brian Ermovick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chris Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christian Lynbech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dale James Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Erick Kinnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Graydon Hoare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Guido Witmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Holger Eitzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ian Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ioannis Tambouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jens Scheidtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jonathon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jorg Schuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Justin Burket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martin Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nick Cropper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nikhil Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Paul J. Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Peter Irannelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Randall Scott Loomis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Richard G. Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Soenke Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Taylor C. Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tommi Leino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[2]
No reply
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Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alexander Shinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alexander Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alistair Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Allan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Anders Chrigstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andrew Feinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ben J. Ciaccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Benedikt Eric Heinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bill Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bjorn Brenander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Christopher F. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chuck Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Claus Wickinghoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Clay Crouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave Tolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ed Petron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Edward C. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Francois Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Frank Belew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Frank Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Giuliano Procida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Goran Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gordon Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Grant R. Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ivan Stojic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jakob Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Bielman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jay Kominek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John D. Thomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John Job Bogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jonathan K. Rabone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Juergen Menden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Justin Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Karl Bartel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kevin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Klaus Kettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Larry Daffy Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Lincoln Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark Mickan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark Triggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Martijn van de Streek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matthew Schlegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Borella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nathan Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Neil A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ole Jorgen Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Owen S. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pavel Tcholakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Petr Spatka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
R. Garth Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rafael Kitover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Robert Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Robert Resendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Roberto Moreda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Scott Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Skuli Davidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Stefan Cars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sylvain de Crom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ted Whalen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thierry Bourrillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ueyama Rui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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