Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (213 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 14:25:56 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> It's good to hear from the membership team about the feasibility of the
> process.  That was something we tried to bring the point up in the
> previous discussions that process needs to be the domain of the
> membership team to decide, not the overall Project.
>
> But I'm curious on the policy aspect.  In the case of our discussions, I
> believe we felt it would be more reasonable to determine inactive status
> if a person does not respond in some way (email or form or whatever)
> versus determination via whether a person has voted or not.

Limiting the definition of [in]activity to voting activity restricts the scope 
of activity to where it is actually required.

> Since we've used scripts to send out member emails in the past, how is
> it not feasible this time around and then simply inactivate the ones
> that don't respond?

It's not infeasible, just that this method is integrated with an existing 
process so lets us get on with the fun stuff with the minimum of overhead.
 
> Furthermore, if we are going to use voting as the litmus test, then I
> would argue we would have to institute that policy "as of now" meaning
> past non-votes don't count.  It wouldn't be fair to "penalize" someone
> for an action that wasn't considered a penalty before now.  If that's
> the case, then we can't inactivate someone until 2 elections from now.

It's not a penalty, just a way to recognise those who don't care about 
participating in votes and preventing them from skewing the result.

Will

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