On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:19 -0500, Emily Ravenwood wrote: > Here's one for the "questions of policy" basket, since it just came > up on one of the IJ comms I watch. > > What happens when the maintainer of a community is inactive on the > service for a long time? > > What appears to be a standing LJ policy *on paper*, that a comm with > a long-inactive maintainer will have a new maintainer appointed > randomly from the members, has been put into practice on LJ and seems > to be occasioning some bad reactions. I have no idea how > "inactivity" was defined or what measures may have been taken to > contact the maintainer, all I saw was the notice that one chosen > member got.
For IRC channels on freenode, it's possible to appoint a 'backup' channel owner, who gains control automagically if the main channel owner's account goes inactive (defined as 'not used for more than 90 days') and gets deleted. It might be good to have a 'fallback' maintainer setting on DW? If people don't use it then they have less valid cause for complaint when things go wrong. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
