Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding
]] Ian Jackson
> I think that, with some safeguards[1], this would be a good thing to
> offer people. If nothing else people have often used @d.o addresses
> in Debian work, where the addresses live on after they move on, and we
> should definitely encourage even an emeritus member to be reachable
> for answering questions or whatever, as their time and interest
> permits.
I don't think we should do that. Once they've left the project, they
don't and shouldn't have the ability to answer for Debian in any way.
> Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some
> kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email
> forwarding. But it wouldn't have to have the wide powers of an active
> DD/DM account.
>
> What do people think ? How hard would this be ?
It would make our already too complex setups even more complex, but
that's not the reason why I think it's a bad idea.
> The emeritus member should refrain from advertising the @debian.org
> email address, so outgoing emails, web pages, etc., should be updated
> to show a different address. Obviously the point of retaining the old
> address is to avoid having to deal with a massive array of existing
> places where the address is published, but there should be no active
> uses, and any particular instances should be changed on requests by
> Debian. The forwarding would have to be withdrawn if the emeritus
> member continued to advertise their @d.o address, or if they did
> something sufficiently bad that we would want to disassociate
> ourselves from them more completely.
I don't think we're in a position where we would be able to effectively
police this, and so I don't think we should try either.
Cheers,
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Tollef Fog Heen
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