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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> 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

I just meant in general, and to say it again, that we should fire a warning 
shot
across their bow, first, which I've already done for the inactive ones, and 
got
responses back for most of them and removed appropriately.

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
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