A while ago [1] in the "committer and pmc requirements" thread emeritus status came up (Alan's description quoted below). But I don't think there was consensus (or at least I could not find followup in the archives). Is this something we agree is a good idea?
> Why emeritus? I think that it's important for people who are evaluating the community to have an accurate sense of about how active the community is in terms of committers and PMC members. With that in mind I think that the emeritus status/process should be a pain free, non-punative, process where by emeritus members can be instantly reactivated at solely their own request, i.e. there is no evaluation or vote to reactivate them. [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kafka-dev/201203.mbox/%3CCAOeJiJgzNNGFdKwo4dtWqSHDuZ5Yxn=uqrwjz3ken7bpse_...@mail.gmail.com%3E
