On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:53:42PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Am Donnerstag, dem 30. Jul 2009 schrieb Sylvain Beucler: > > > We're currently working on a new web front-end that will be easier to > > improve > > and maintain. > > You mean you won't use Savane anymore? > Or do you mean to just improve it? > > > When working on data migration we saw that more than 1/2 user accounts are > > inactive, that is, they registered more than one year ago, they didn't > > submit > > or comment on a tracker or news item, they are not part of any group, not > > did > > they submit a request for contributor. > > > > We're not talking about spammer accounts (who usually at least send spam on > > the trackers or news, and got desactivated) - just people who registered, > > but > > only have a basic profile. > > > > We're considering doing some clean-up here and mass-remove these accounts. > > What are your thoughts? > > Please don't! > While I'm active at savannah, but for example I have registered my username > on gna.org just so that nobody could fetch it away, as I've seen it on other > portals. I think that's a good reason, isn't it?
I mentioned in the other thread that you could (say) comment the news item about planned accounts deletion, which would leave a mark of activity and exclude your account from the batch-removal :) If you need to keep the account I thing it's reasonable to ask for a lil bit of history or activity. > Maybe, if you have the e-mail adresses, you should at least contact the people > you want to remove. We're talking about 30-40,000 users, sadly. > Apropos, will gna.org also change? We haven't discussed this yet, after all this is a work in progress. The plan is to use a web framework (Django) to reimplement the base features, and possibly keep other independant parts as-is, at least in a first step. -- Sylvain
