[Xastir-dev] Dropping developers from the list?

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Sun Feb 27 08:16:08 EST 2005


I share the sentiment that if someone's in the contributors' list, and 
hasn't been active, they could be removed... After all, it's trivial to 
reinstate them, isn't it?

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> 
>>I suspect this might be a bit of a controversial topic, but I don't
>>tend to shy away from those!
> 
> 
> Not much controversy.  Nada.  Nothing.  I guess people don't care
> about this one?
> 
> This is the developers list, right?
> 
> 
> 
>>What do the developers think about putting a time-limit on developer
>>inactivity?  Something in the neighborhood of one to two years of
>>inactivity (I'm talking about CVS commits) causing your developer
>>status to be revoked?  Allow reinstatement of developer status if
>>they return?
>>
>>The idea behind this is to keep our developer list relatively clean,
>>showing only the currently active set of developers.  The list will
>>change over time as people come and go, we all know that.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Note:  Whatever everybody's thoughts are on this subject, Chuck Byam
>>has the final say as to the procedure, as he _is_ the admin for the
>>project.
> 
> 
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