[ovirt-devel] Re: Purging inactive maintainers from vdsm-master-maintainers

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:29 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:27 PM Adam Litke <alitke(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> I also agree with the proposal. It's sad to turn in my keys but I'm >> likely unable to perform many duties expected of a maintainer at this >> point. I know that people can still find me via the git history :) >> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:37 AM Milan Zamazal <mzamazal(a)redhat.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> Dan Kenigsberg <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: >>> >>> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:33 PM Francesco Romani <fromani(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On 11/27/19 3:25 PM, Nir Soffer wrote: >>> > >>> >> > I want to remove inactive contributors from vdsm-master-maintainers. >>> >> > >>> >> > I suggest the simple rule of 2 years of inactivity for removing from >>> >> > this group, >>> >> > based on git log. >>> >> > >>> >> > See the list below for current status: >>> >> > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/admin/groups/106,members >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> No objections, keeping the list minimal and current is a good idea. >>> > >>> > >>> > I love removing dead code; I feel a bit different about removing old >>> > colleagues. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic. >>> > >>> > If we introduce this policy (which I understand is healthy), let us >>> > give a long warning period (6 months?) before we apply the policy to >>> > existing dormant maintainers. We should also make sure that we >>> > actively try to contact a person before he or she is dropped. >>> >>> I think this is a reasonable proposal. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Milan >>> >> > I forgot about this, and another year passed. > > Sending again, this time I added all past maintainers that may not watch > this list. > Very sad, but it makes total sense. +1 Note that other projects move past maintainers to a special group named "emeritus_*".