Developer Only Discussion List

[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 05:21, Eric Sandall wrote:
> If they're not going to be developing, they should tell their Lead so that
> the appropriate actions can be taken (removal from the wiki, Perforce
> access, Ibiblio e-mail, etc.). But if we remove the leachers, the server
> will be happier for the lighter load. ;) I'd prefere to contact them first,
> though, and ask why they are doing what they are doing. If they say that
> they are no longer developing (or no response is received within a week),
> then remove them.
>
> Diplomacy, my dear Watson, diplomacy. ;)
>
> -sandalle

Believe it or not, I *can* be diplomatic. I can be the poster boy for "butter 
wouldn't melt in his mouth"if necessary, unfortunately this (problem of 
freeloading) has been discussed before and it would be nice we developed a 
standard practice.

If a *guru* stops making submissions, and an agreed upon amount of time 
passes 
then I would like for that person to lose p4 access privileges. They aren't 
giving anything to our community, and are abusing a privilege they no longer 
deserve. 
Along with p4 access (and it's associated overheads that Tony is now 
mentioning) comes a responsibility to either actively maintain some portion 
of SMGL, to become a nomadic guru and fix any problems they come across, to 
file bugs for spells they have *tested*, to constructively comment on bugs 
already filed by other users, or in short, make *some* sort of contribution.
It would be nice if a Lead could then send a memo to these inactive users, 
simply stating they have a week/month(?) to start contributing or their 
access will be removed. 
If they don't reply, they get removed.
If they reply in the affirmative, declaring their undying loyalty to us, but 
end up not doing anything, they get removed.
If they spend a few minutes, close some quickfix bugs or update some spells 
they use, they continue to have privileges.
This is a common sense, common decency issue for me, but I understand I set 
myself high standards.

Hamish
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