On 8 November 2014 17:05, Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, November 8, 2014 17:09, Jonathan McDowell wrote: >> We had hoped to be down to a small number of special cases to deal with >> by this point, but with the numbers still looking this bad we're not >> yet at a stage where we can work out appropriate next steps for those >> special cases. > > In the list you post, I see lots of names of people I know to be inactive > for years now. Removing all those keys from the ring would therefore maybe > not be such a disaster, because the majority is no longer regularly > contributing to Debian. > > To make this a bit more concrete, I've matched the uids against echelon, > and this is the outcome: > > 160 2014
Can the keys last used in 2013 or earlier (and not yet special cased / migrating) be moved to non-uploading keyring? This should not have any impact - no recent uploading usage, yet can vote still be a DD, etc. > 42 2013 > 54 2012 > 31 2011 > 24 2010 > 31 2009 > 21 2008 > 17 2007 > 7 2006 > 5 2005 > 2 2004 > 1 2003 > 1 2002 > > So 160 keys were used this year, which is cause for concern if they are > removed. However, it means 236 keys have not seen use in 2014 yet. And of > those 160 keys have been used most recently in 2011; of those we can be > rather certain that removing their key from the ring actually confirms the > status quo rather than disrupt it. > > It therefore makes sense not to focus on the number of 436, but on the > ones that have actually been used in 2014; get that first number of 160 > closer to 0. > > > Cheers, > Thijs > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/edbe948c76a3d7abd9d0f5d126b237f9.squir...@aphrodite.kinkhorst.nl > -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUg0dgsiAzQ3JkJKq3=_hie1y_dzhpek5zkmza12rqu...@mail.gmail.com