On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:32:54AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 23/07/09 at 01:10 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:57:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > >>> Inactive maintainers do not make harm by definition. > > >> The two are completely orthogonal. Also, I disagree that inactive > >> maintainer do no harm; they do harm if you think they are still > >> feeling responsible for a package while they are not. > > > Sure, I meant that they do not harm the archive since they do not > > upload packages. > > Large numbers of them *do* harm the project since they raise the > constitution's Q/K, but don't vote / second proposals / ... I don't > think we are at the level where this is an actual problem, but it is > theoretically possible.
While this is true for Q, it is not true for K. K cannot raise beyond 5; and Q has not been a problem, ever. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
