On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 16:29, Denny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 10:19 -0500, Emily Ravenwood wrote: >> 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?
You can already have multiple maintainers, so if you want to make sure there'll be someone around if you drop off the face of the earth, you can add a co-maintainer or twelve. I'm not sure whether giving someone maintainership automagically only on inactivity of the community's maintainer -- but not before -- would be useful. Presumably, the person who would "succeed" the maintainer would be someone the original maintainer trusts, so they could become a co-maintainer right away IMO. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
