On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:41:49PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly > inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by > looking first at all maintainers who didn't have a source package > signed by (one of) their key(s) in unstable and then excluding from > that anyone who had been seen (with a signed message) by echelon in > the last 6 months. Excellent! I for one am very glad to see this being worked on. > Of the 191 pings were sent out: > o 34 people's ping bounced[1]. > o 28 people replied asking to be retired. > o 29 people replied with various different responses. > o 10 people replied who were active. > o 90 people didn't reply within the 2 month deadline[2]. Would it be possible to get a list of people in the middle three categories? (Or is that forthcoming?) I presume that for the retirees, at least, orphaning of their packages is in order. > There will be 4 states for any given account in LDAP: > > o [default] > o Emeritus > o Disabled > o Memorial > > The [default] state is what the majority of accounts will be in; I > don't want to call it 'active' because that would be misleading. Maybe "operational"? > So, the 34 people who's email bounced and 90 people who didn't reply > will have their account set to the 'disabled' status. The 28 people > who asked to be retired will be set to 'emeritus'. If you know how to > reach any of the people listed in [1] and [2] below, please feel free > to contact them and get them to reply to wat@debian.org. Is there a mnemonic for that? I.e., does "wat" stand for something? > Finally, this is only the start of what will hopefully be an ongoing > process; further pings based on other criteria are planned and also > the results of Martin's MIA work will be acted on. Thanks again. -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who branden@debian.org | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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