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Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 23/07/09 at 01:10 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:57:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

>>> Inactive maintainers do not make harm by definition.

>> The two are completely orthogonal. Also, I disagree that inactive
>> maintainer do no harm; they do harm if you think they are still
>> feeling responsible for a package while they are not.

> Sure, I meant that they do not harm the archive since they do not
> upload packages.

Large numbers of them *do* harm the project since they raise the
constitution's Q/K, but don't vote / second proposals / ... I don't
think we are at the level where this is an actual problem, but it is
theoretically possible.

-- 
Lionel


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