Someone who was sort-of-MIA said on -private that they would like to keep their @debian.org email forwarding indefinitely, as they move to emeritus status.
I think that, with some safeguards[1], this would be a good thing to offer people. If nothing else people have often used @d.o addresses in Debian work, where the addresses live on after they move on, and we should definitely encourage even an emeritus member to be reachable for answering questions or whatever, as their time and interest permits. Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email forwarding. But it wouldn't have to have the wide powers of an active DD/DM account. What do people think ? How hard would this be ? [1] Safeguards I think would be appropriate: The emeritus member should refrain from advertising the @debian.org email address, so outgoing emails, web pages, etc., should be updated to show a different address. Obviously the point of retaining the old address is to avoid having to deal with a massive array of existing places where the address is published, but there should be no active uses, and any particular instances should be changed on requests by Debian. The forwarding would have to be withdrawn if the emeritus member continued to advertise their @d.o address, or if they did something sufficiently bad that we would want to disassociate ourselves from them more completely. Ian.