On Thursday 04 June 2015 08:13:59 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
We discussed this topic at not so recent openSUSE Board Face to Face meeting and touched it on oSC 15 during project meeting. Also taking under consideration the responses that were provided to a similar topic approximately 2 years ago, we (in the board) think it would be a good idea to implement something to help with that. Automatically monitor openSUSE Members activity on mailing lists, OBS, bugzilla, maybe more. Remember when we last saw openSUSE Member on any of those channels and if he doesn't show for for example one year, we can send him e-mail asking whether he still wants to be a member with a link to click to create artificial activity for the automat. And if he doesn't click on it in let's say month, we will retire him - he will be moved to openSUSE retired geekos group. If he comes back and want to be member again or if he was retired by accident, he can be made member again by just clicking on the link from the mail or by asking membership committee and they will approve him without any additional questions.
Automatic monitoring of general activity is difficult, error-prone, and can
have all kind of unintended social side effects. It would need quite some
effort.
A much simpler way would be to just use participation in votes as a criteria.
This also would be directly tied to what the membership is about. We could do
something like putting everybody who hasn't voted for two consecutive board
elections into an emeritus state without voting rights. This would keep the
membership with voting rights to the active people.
In KDE e.V. we do it this way for many years and it works quite well.
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Cornelius Schumacher