I have a question ... How do I keep my Debian maintainer status if I miss the vote? Is there a website I can log in to "raise my hand" and keep from being booted out?
Is there somewhere this is being debated where I can join the debate? I frequently respond to bug reports, upload new releases, etc. Shouldn't that clearly indicate that I am still active? I understand if you would rather not debate this privately. I just don't want to be booted out of the group because I missed a vote. Cheers! Jon On 2/9/07, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi as Debian gets more and more accounts it is only natural that we have more and more unused accounts. People get MIA, find different interests or simply lost interest in Debian but did not follow the normal procedure of retiring.[1] To reduce the security risk an unused open account has, and also to get the number of Developers to reflect the reality, we, the Debian Account Managers, decided to do regular "WaT"[2] runs. Selection of the people included in those runs will be done in a way that we avoid sending out such mails to active people. As a good start we will take the upcoming DPL vote as an input source, everyone who doesn't vote this year will be included in the first run. * Please note that you can vote without expressing an opinion! * Later on there should be more such runs, on a regular base. Input of affected accounts can be (apart from future DPL election non-voters) the great work from the MIA-team, but details for that need to be worked out. We currently have 4 states for any given account in LDAP: o [default] o Emeritus o Disabled o Memorial [default] is obviously what the majority of accounts has. No need to explain it. Memorial is a special state used for accounts that are disabled but which we don't want reused to avoid confusion (at best), e.g. with developers who've passed away. Now, for the handling of the WaT runs, Emeritus and Disabled are the two important states here: To get into the Emeritus state you voluntarily retire from the project, following [1] or by replying to a WaT mail. The account will be put into the 'emeritus' state. It will get locked and their keys are moved to a separate keyring. Their email will continue to work for 6 months. They lose vote, upload and -private reading privileges. People in this stage can get their DD status back with a reduced NM process. The disabled state is for people where the WaT mail bounced or who don't reply. For the first 12 months things are the same as 'emeritus', after that they will need to pass full NM if they want to get their DD status back. [1] http://www.us.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-developer-duties.en.html#s3.7 [2] *W*here *a*re *T*hey? -- bye Joerg It seems to me that the account creation step could be fully automated: checking the box "approved by DAM" could trigger an insert into the LDAP database thereby creating the account. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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