Hi, On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:56:00PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > My opinion in two short comments: > > > - reduce the time to 1 year > > This introduces the possibility that, even if the DD votes in every election > and uploads their packages once per release cycle, they'll be MIAed out of > Debian - if one year the DPL vote is a little early, and the next year it's > a little late, and there are no GRs during the intervening year, then a year > passes in between votes.
I'm not sure, how much efforts this would take, but it should be possible to couple the expire-check with a check if a vote took place during the year of inactivity and if yes, go on with removing, otherwise send a warning (to whoever we consider responsible for this) and do nothing. > I think if we're going to expire DDs out in the described fashion, 2 years > is the minimum threshold we should use. Why? I think there are not _really_ technical reasons speaking against 1y and its also a reasonable long time frame. If people actually are doing nothing for 2 years (!) it hurts the project quiet hard (in fact its already hard if certain pieces in the project are un-maintained for a year.. so..) > > - uploads won't work for all DDs (some are active in teams only, some do > > documentation/... stuff only), a better way to measure activity is necessary > > here probably. But voting is a good thing to look at, definitely. > > Should activity in teams be enough reason to be regarded as an active DD? > (Are you referring here to package teams, or infrastructure teams?) Yes. Beeing a DD does not require beeing a Packager, nor does it require to be an Uploader. If the person in question contributes to Debian, for example by committing to the python modules team and this in a regular manner it should be okay for him to stay a DD. However with a (n package uploads||n votes)/year logic there is a problem remaining: What to do with people who are not contributing to Debian, but exercising their voting rights? Best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
