Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity
On Fri, Jul 24 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> > Should activity in teams be enough reason to be regarded as an active DD?
>> Yes.
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:35:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Also people who do translations. Perhaps we can institute other
>> sensors/probes that can track such activity? (Committing to a VCS could
>> send off a email to a bot recording who did the commit, for example).
>> This can detect any activity by a person on a team VCS site, for
>> instance.
>
> This is the kind of things I intended (and still intend) to avoid in
> the proposal. DD rights let you do things you couldn't do without
> them, mainly two: vote and do uploads [1]. I think we should measure
> them as a basis for being active, you can continue doing the other
> tasks also without DD rights.
Fair enough. One can also add logging in to restricted machines
to this (need to be a DD to do that), but not if we take into account
Steve Langaseck's argument that purely infrastructure activities should
not serve as a basis for non-MIA.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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