Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts
On 10927 March 1977, Bart Martens wrote:
>> Three week vacation periods are not uncommon.
> Of course, and I'm sure everyone knows that. When I read the
> announcement again, then I see no reason to panic. :)
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/02/msg00008.html
> An example, how I understand the announcement:
> - a DD skips the coming DPL vote,
> - this DD forgets to register "on vacation",
> - this DD goes on vacation for 4 weeks,
> - DAM sends a WaT e-mail,
> - DAM waits a reasonable time for a reply :)
That will be one or two months, so a very reasonable time.
> - the DD is back from vacation,
> - the DD has missed the WaT e-mail,
> - DAM decides to set the account to "emeritus state",
No reply is disabled state.
> - e-mail still works for 12 months,
Its 6, same as emeritus.
> - the DD notices the reduced permissions with next package update,
> - the DD contacts DAM, "huuuh my account is locked!"
> - DAM restores the full account, "hi you're back, how was vacation"
Yes, basically. So to get your account in a state where you can only
come back by full NM you need to
- "miss" the vote, which (as Manoj described) should generate enough
noise to not miss it[1],
- miss the WaT mail. Even if you are on vacation for a long time, I
guess it wont be 3 weeks (vote) plus one or two months (WaT mail
timeout), and dont you read your backlog when you come back?
- miss the 12 months of account disabled before you lose the ability
to come back without full NM.
This sums up to 13 - 14 months of do-nothing to completly lose the
account. That should be *plenty* of time to send one mail...
> This seems very reasonable. Or have I misunderstood something?
[1] well, except you have like long vacation right now. Or unplanned
hospital stay or something like this, which is the reason disabled
can get back within the 12 month of deactivation...
--
bye Joerg
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there
when it happens.
-- Woody Allen
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