Hi all,
How about an algorithm something like this for de/relisting:
- the subproject's PMC reps should be responsible for keeping a list of
active committers;
- a committer should be deemed active so long as he posts to the
subproject's mailing lists or makes code contributions;
- When a decision requiring a majority of active committers has to be made,
the PMC reps will review the active list; if after searching the relevant
mailing list archives they cannot find a post or code contribution record
from a particular committer for the last three months, then they need to
send an e-mail to the committer's Apache ID, cc'ing the subproject's
development list (also the pmc list?) warning the committer that they are
about to be considered inactive;
- no response within 72 hours will result in the committer being
inactivated.
To my mind this seems fair; we're giving people an explicit chance to tell
us they're just lurking, while not imposing undue hardships on PMC reps.
I'm not quite clear on how a committer reactivates themselves though: what
if a committer who's been inactive for years seems to show up again, says
they're interested and wants a password reset? On the one hand it would be
great to encourage people to return to the fold; on the other you can
imagine that it wouldn't be hard to compromise such a system, if a
malicious party got hold of a list of inactive committers somehow...
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Neil
Neil Graham
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Berin Lautenbach wrote:
> > to have high voter turnout....
> Can we possibly engender a high voter turn out without
> setting arbitrary limits? For example you could have the sub-project
Or 'de-list' folks if they did not vote on any issue in X consequtive
periods or somethign ?
Dw
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