Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > 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. > >
If you want them to be remembered, it may be better to name something after them. Not many people will be perusing the list of developers. Martin _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
