On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, John Burwell <john.burw...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
> All, > > As I am sure many have observed, we have a large number of committers [1] > who are no longer active. Currently, we no status that continues to > recognize someone’s committer merit while allowing them to declare inactive > in the project. To address this gap, I am proposed amending our project > bylaws [2] as follows: > > +1 to introduce emeritus status > 2.3.4 A committer is considered "emeritus" by sending their declaration > to priv...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:priv...@cloudstack.apache.org>. > An emeritus committer may return to "active" status by sending their > declaration to priv...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto: > priv...@cloudstack.apache.org>. > No vote is required for a committer change from “emeritus" to “active" > status. > > What exactly does going emeritus mean? Removal of commit bit/access on the account? Disabling/removal of account? I am -1 for the latter, as people might have used their apache.org email address elsewhere or might be committers elsewhere disallowing us from doing this, but I can be +1 for removing karma/commit bit. > 2.3.5 "Active committters" are all non-emeritus committers. > > These clauses were inspired by the Apache Cocoon [3] bylaws [4]. To be > clear, a committer never loses their merit, and only a committer can decide > to go emeritus. Since merit is never lost, a emeritus committer may return > to active status at anytime by simply informing the PMC of their intention > to be active again. No one can require that committer change to emeritus > status. > > On the website, we would place emeritus committers in a separate section — > allowing users to more easily identify those that are actively > participating in the project. > > I am not sure how we keep this updated in an automated way. If we remove emeritus members from the LDAP group, we have a way to fetch active ones, but no way to fetch inactive/emeritus. Haven't asked infra, but perhaps it could be possible to add an emeritus ldap group or something like that -- Erik
