A provisional list of the list of committers and reviewers who will become 
inactive is in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163318 
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163318>

Simon

> On Oct 9, 2016, at 5:57 PM, Simon Fraser <simon.fra...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 
>> <mailto: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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