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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:49:04 -0600
David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:

> Yay Top Posting!
> 
> Spent some time thinking about this, and what I'd like to do is:
> 
> * Lock the accounts on the server for people on "sabbatical."
> * Remove their Voice/Ops from IRC, since that's our greatest public
> facing thing, and we're supposed to have active people with Voice/Ops so
> it's obvious who to talk to.
> 
> And I think that's it.
> 
> Any objections to doing just that?
> 
> --
> David Kowis
> 
> 
> On 02/05/2015 02:50 AM, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > On Feb 04, Vlad Glagolev [stealth AT tiberian.ru] wrote:
> >> Therefore, per our developer organization document[1], the following
> >> developers[2] are up for removal:
> > ... 
> >> A vote against the removal may be cast. Follow our voting policy[4] if
> >> in doubt.
> > 
> > I'm not voting against per se but as the person who wrote and drove
> > implementation of most of those policies originally I see little value in
> > enforcing them at the present time.
> > 
> > There are two primary reasons to enforce removal:
> > 
> > 1) security, to avoid ssh keys sitting around that aren't used
> > 2) avoid issues with inability to maintain quorum for voting
> > 
> > For (1), we can lock accounts that are old without removing people, and
> > re-enable them if they come back.
> > For (2), we don't see a lot of actual interest in votes right now because
> > of the activity level of things.  If we did ever see a quorum problem, we
> > could easily at that time move to higher enforcement.
> > 
> > Meanwhile removing people that have contributed a lot to the distro over
> > the years but have been on the same sabbatical many others have come and
> > gone from doesn't buy us anything I can see in overcoming the issue the
> > distro has right now, in fact it makes it harder to encourage people to 
> > get
> > back into it if they do get time or interest.
> > 
> > I'd at least suggest doing them the courtesy of an email to see if they
> > have any intentions toward SMGL these days.  Maybe they are bored and
> > needing a project and just haven't thought of us in a while.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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