On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 05:22:47PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > >I'd have it expire in 2 years also... basicly a ping to take them off the > > >email lists if they don't respond... > > Then you have to define what happens when a contributing memebr slips into > > non contrib. I think this way is easy, and really see no need to remove > > inactive supporting members. Otherwise I'd me for a longer term (4-5 > > years possibly). > > Perhaps it's time to address the issue of whether we'll have the > (hu)manpower needed to manually reinstate a member every year. I know that > some of this could be automated, but the automation will inevitably > require a responsible, quick-to-reply set of maintainers, in much the same > way as the debian new-maintainer list does.
With the automation, I don't see why it'd be a large problem. Debian has functioned pretty well with it's new maintainer team... SPI, if it has that big if a membership work load, should also have a larger pool of volunteers that can be tapped for projects such as this. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * =========================================================================
