Hi,

+1 for pruning PMC members who aren't "active enough". I definitely need to
be on that list.
-1 for pruning committers.

Thanks,
Nirmal.


                                                                           
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+1 for pruning PMC members and -1 for pruning committers.

Sanjiva.

Roland Weber wrote:
> Hello Dinesh,
>
>> I don't understand why we need pruning them, I think committers and
PMC's
>> commitment to those projects is worth enough to allocate them few more
>> extra bytes :)
>
> The point of pruning the PMC list is that PMCs are responsible
> to provide oversight of a project. The board wants and needs to
> know how many people are actually _doing_ that, as opposed to
> how many people used to do it at some time. Propagating PMCs
> to an emeritus state is nothing irreversible, and they can remain
> listed as former PMCs. But the board needs a list of currently
> active PMCs.
> As for the committers list, I agree with you. Jakarta also
> decided to leave the committers list unchanged.
>
> cheers,
>   Roland
>
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