On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >>>> I propose that we leave Gerard van Dongen and Jamie Tittle on the >>>> list since they are still with us in spirit. >> >> i regret that i do not fully understand this request either. >> while both of them have contributed a lot and chances are high that they >> would be contributing if they were still with us, i do not see a point >> in treating them as if they were still among us. >> a usual clause for "vereins"-members (in morbid austria) is, that their >> membership ends with their death. >> >> personally, i would not want to do the removal of jamie or gerard just >> because they are no longer with us. but i have little problem in having >> their sourceforge accounts be part of an automated process. > > I agree with that. It's a delicate issue: James and Gerard will be > with us in spirit. They belong to the project as long as the project > exists. > > But if we update the list and make it into a list of active developers > - something which I would advocate - it would not be appropriate to keep > their accounts in that list. > > We should avoid to create the impression, that James' and Gerard's > developer accounts are only listed because someone "forgot" to update > the list.
I guess that I am the only sentimental one here. I just thought it would be a nice gesture to leave them there. On the technical side, I am opposed to making the removal of developers from the pure-data project an automatic or scripted thing. I think it should remain completely manual, and should be discussed everytime it happens. Developer access is a touchy subject and should be handled carefully, not automatically. .hc > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ > > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > zen \ \ \[D[D[D[D _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
