Re: DAM and NEW queues processing
Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:35:30AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
>> Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:32:14AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>>>> Don Armstrong wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>>>>> Ok - then I guess my problem is that the list of names included in
>>>>>> these is so non-notable (and is empty most weeks anyway...) that it
>>>>>> doesn't register at all with me.
>>>>> Would it be enough to just have a special automated mail
>>>>> congratulating new developers on -newmaint (or modify the subject of
>>>>> this mail to congratulate them?)
>>>> I'd be happy to modify the cronjob to send such mails to -project, if the
>>>> interest is large enough. Does anybody want to come up with a proper wording?
>>> I'd say it would nice to have a mail to -project with a welcome for new
>>> maintainers, a thanks for retiring maintainers, and the new number of
>>> developpers. But that might be much harder to setup.
>>
>> Neither FD nor DAM have anything to do with retiring maintainers. They're
>> removed from the keyring and the account is disabled.
>
> How come DAM (Debian *Account* Manager) have nothing to do with disabling
> accounts ?
They do, though not if the people affected retire themselves without
prodding. DAM does do WAT runs to see if some accounts are not used
anymore and should get disabled.
Cheers
Luk
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