On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:12:05PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:46:12 -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: > >According to the email I received confirming my membership, > >non-contributing memberships do not expire. On my membership > >status page[1], however, it says that my membership expires > >2002-10-09. I am a non-contributing member. > > > >Matt > > > >1. https://members.spi-inc.org/nmstatus.php? > > Non-contribs do not expire, contribs do. In the web pages they're set > to one year, but that's too short... we're going to discuss that and put > it at 2/3/4 years... I think 3 years (which is the term of board > members) is a good number. > > This is just to make sure that the people who can vote in SPI are still > contributing to free software projects.
``What we've got here is failure to communicate.'' The expiration date is shown as 2002-10-09 because a contributing membership will expire at that point (at least until the board changes the term length). Since non-contributing memberships never expire, this field should not be shown on their membership status page. Matt
