I plan to implement these changes, via additions to contributors.json, in the near future, by making inactive any committer/reviewer who has not exercised their privilege in the past year. There will be a few VIPs who retain their commit and/or review rights.
I do not intend to email people whose status changes. If someone loses commit access because of these changes, they can request reinstatement by emailing webkit-reviewers. Simon > On Jul 9, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > > Hello WebKittens, > > WebKit reviewers recently had a discussion about the large number of inactive > committers and reviewers left after the Blink fork, and we've come to > introduce a new policy to consider committers and reviewers who have not > contributed to the project over one year "inactive". In addition, any > subversion account that hasn't been used to commit a code change to > svn.webkit.org <http://svn.webkit.org/> over one year is subject to the > deactivation. [1] > > The policy change has been enacted as of r170904 > <http://trac.webkit.org/r170904> which added the following section to the > WebKit Committers and Reviewer Policy > <http://www.webkit.org/coding/commit-review-policy.html>. > > > Inactive Committer or Reviewer Status > > A WebKit Committer or Reviewer that has not been active in the project for > over a year is considered inactive. Activity for this purpose is defined as > landing at least one patch in the past year. Reviewers who have reviewed a > patch in the past year will also be considered active. > > Inactive Committers can regain Active Committer status by landing (via the > Commit Queue) a non-trivial patch and asking on webkit-reviewers for a return > to Active status. > > Inactive Reviewers need to show that they are making an effort to get > familiar with the changes that have happened in the project since they were > last active by landing at least 3 non-trivial patches. Once they have landed > the patches, they need to send an email requesting reactivation to > webkit-reviewers. This request needs the support of 2 Active Reviewers to be > granted. > > Note that regardless of a Committer or Reviewer's activity status, any > subversion account that has not been used in the past year will be > deactivated for security purposes. For example, a Reviewer that has reviewed > a patch in the past year but has not committed may have their subversion > account deactivated. To reactivate a deactivated subversion account, an > Active Committer or Active Reviewer can send an email to webkit-reviewers > requesting it. > > > - R. Niwa > > [1] For the initial mass deactivation, I will send an email to each address > associated with the subversion account and give the account owner an option > to keep it active.
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