I am fine either way. Not sure if there is a big difference between an inactive committer and an emeritus committer that can reactivate themselves at any time. I do agree it helps make it more clear who is doing work.
-Jay On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Chris Burroughs <chris.burrou...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
