Hi, I agree with the overall idea of having real member count figures. Keeping them high artificially is nothing good, both for community processes and the impression gives to anyone. Am 28.11.20 um 00:07 schrieb Christian Boltz:
This makes defining inactive members easy: - no visible actions on mailinglists, bugzilla etc. (detectable by the script, if we continue to use it) - no answer to the mail asking if he/she wants to stay a member - having an outdated, undeliverable mail address as target of the @opensuse.org address so that the mail asking if he/she wants to stay a member can't be delivered
Actually undeliverable mails might be the biggest risk to loose membership - for example, last time I checked, about 10 members still had their @novell.com address listed. And that's just the obvious and very visible part of non-deliverable mail addresses.
I'd run these steps in sequence to strain out definitely inactive members step by step: 1) check for activity within the past 12 months by script 2) contact via email @opensuse.org (and the one it's pointing to directly) 3) check connect-o-o profile for other ways to contact 4) do a quick web search The latter two are optional and mostly depend on how many inactive members are left over after 1) and 2). As a side note: Keeping your member's roster in order is desired for associations under German law, like political parties or the e.V. Without having checked I assume there's something similar for foundations. We'd be doing some fundamental work with the regular cleanup, so to say. vinz.