+1 for #1

Martin Cooper schrieb:
> I'm pondering the "right" way to update the developer list in our master POM
> for people who have gone emeritus. I can think of several options:
> 
> 1) Prefix the role with "Emeritus", so "PMC Member" -> "Emeritus PMC Member"
> and "Committer" -> "Emeritus Committer".
> 
> 2) For a PMC member who has gone emeritus, switch back to "Committer", since
> those people are technically still committers on the project. For a
> committer who has gone emeritus, leave as is.
> 
> 3) Remove the entries for developers who have gone emeritus, since they are
> no longer active and therefore not part of the team that is currently
> working on the project.
> 
> 4) Do nothing. I don't think this makes sense, but I list it for the sake of
> completeness.
> 
> I think #2 would be confusing to all involved, so I'm not in favour of that,
> which leaves #1 and #3.
> 
> Initially, #3 made the most sense to me, since the POM reflects the ongoing
> work of the project. All of our emeritus volunteers would still be listed on
> the Volunteers page, but not on the Team list page. However, the wording on
> the Team list page (http://struts.apache.org/team-list.html) generated from
> the POM made me think again. It prefaces the team list itself with:
> 
> "The following is a list of developers with commit privileges that have
> directly contributed to the project in one way or another"
> 
> Everyone who has gone emeritus still has commit privileges and they have all
> clearly contributed to the project in the past. That suggests that our
> emeritus folks should remain visible there, and therefore that we should
> choose option #1 above.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> (And does anyone know if the developer list in the master POM gets used for
> anything else, other than this team list page?)
> 
> --
> Martin Cooper
> 

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