Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding
]] Ondřej Surý
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, at 23:01, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] 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.
>
> +1 to that. Either you are with the project, or you are not. If somebody
> hasn't been active in years, and intend to possibly return, we can
> recycle the account name, but he should be probably subject to the
> regular NM procedure.
Yes, people who come back after having retired (or having gone MIA) can
of course have their user name back (subject to them becoming DDs,
through the processes for that). Nobody else can get that account name,
though, since that could cause problems.
--
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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