On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:20:47AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote: > On March 11, 2019 9:03:32 AM PDT, Ineiev <ine...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > >I checked the records for <rms> as a datapoint. that account > >has never been used in any trackers, and there was a period > >of 6 years when essentially no group status for that account > >was modified. of course, he did commit to VCS, but this is > >considerably harder to check. > > Yes, I'm sure we would need a whitelist for certain special accounts like > RMS.
I'm not sure the whitelist wouldn't be too long for us to maintain. > That's not really a data point for anything else, is it? Why not? what prevents any random account from behaving like that (i.e. no tracker activity, a constant set of groups virtually forever)? I think it's a valid pattern for an admin of a package that only uses, say, Hg, download area, web pages and mailing lists.
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