Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
That's a lot less critical. I ran a sweep a couple of years ago that deleted a couple of hundred old unused accounts. At some point I will run another one, but having unused accounts sitting around really doesn't affect us in any way.
Except for a security point of view. But I agree that someone can't do much harm.
In any ways, I recall that some people have CVS karma for the comments system on the PHP website. Is it still accurate? If so, it's maybe less than 50%.
Correct, you can't go by CVS commits alone. The doc notes group of people never touch CVS but since we don't want to have multiple account management systems we just use the same one. So they all have CVS accounts. Some of them have karma and some of them don't. There are also a number of translators who ended up working on the translations but not doing their own commits. The work gets aggregated and checked by one or two people who then commit stuff. We also don't necessarily want to take their accounts away either. So it is not trivial to trim the account space. The last time I did it I used a combination of checking the cvs logs for commits from accounts issued more than a year beforehand and adding everyone who had never committed anything to a list. Then I sent an email to everyone on the list asking them to confirm their accounts and to update their account note to indicate what they were using their account for. After a few weeks I then deleted everyone I hadn't heard from and people who didn't provide a decent reason for keeping their account.
It's probably time to do another such run.
-Rasmus
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