Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread Erik Weber
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:26 PM, John Burwell wrote: > Erik, > > The following is the response I received from infra about managing > emeritus committers: > > commit bits are...binary bits, they can be 1 or they can be 0. We > don’t > operate with

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
Erik, The following is the response I received from infra about managing emeritus committers: commit bits are...binary bits, they can be 1 or they can be 0. We don’t operate with trinary bits here, sorry If you want to have emeritus committers, your best bet is to

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread Daan Hoogland
If their addresses are not valid? It would be a security measure for/from my part. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:23 PM, John Burwell wrote: > Daan, > > I disagree with automatically placing someone in emeritus status. I think > it is very important that some explicitly

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
Daan, I disagree with automatically placing someone in emeritus status. I think it is very important that some explicitly requests the status. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread Daan Hoogland
Guys, one thing is to ping their apache known forwarding address if we suspect they are no longer active. Some might have still addresses of former employers listed and those are emeritus when found, if I may have that opinion.

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
Erik, Good question about the mechanics. I agree that removal of accounts would not be correct. It should only be the removal/suspension of the CloudStack commit bit and karma. In terms of LDAP, my (naive) expectation is that since other projects have this status, infra already has a way to

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread Erik Weber
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:42 PM, John Burwell wrote: > All, > > As I am sure many have observed, we have a large number of committers [1] > who are no longer active. Currently, we no status that continues to > recognize someone’s committer merit while allowing them

[DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-19 Thread John Burwell
All, As I am sure many have observed, we have a large number of committers [1] who are no longer active. Currently, we no status that continues to recognize someone’s committer merit while allowing them to declare inactive in the project. To address this gap, I am proposed amending our