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Re: long term goals of debian membership



On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:56:24PM -0900, Britton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:23:31PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > winning way.  Again, no one forces anyone to be here and when someone no
> > > longer want to be here, that person leaves.
> > 
> > No, they just go MIA, and leave their responsibilities and account unused.
> > Not very many maintainers (in fact only 3 I can think of in the 2 years I
> > have been with Debian) actually take themselves out of the project. This
> > is a management problem for accounts, and a security risk (because the
> > accounts are not being used, or checked).
> 
> We could automaticly disable logins on accounts of people who have not
> logged on in some time.

They don't need to login to be active. A maintainer can upload 30 packages
a day, and never have logged in to any of our systems.

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