On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:23:47 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
2012/2/16 Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com>:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:54:26 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Those that are members but have lost interest, time, or whatever, and no longer contribute for a period of 2 years become honorary members. This is a change to today's practice.
That makes sense to me. That means (presumably) that they'd maintain, for example, their opensuse.org e-mail address, which was one of the issues raised in the last discussion.
And it is an ongoing acknowledgment of past contribution.
The email question is somehow important, but there's far more important reasons to keep the emails, for example git commits, changelog entries, patches, etc.
One quick example... Lets imagine that Ubuntu starts to be a community players and works their issues with upstream GTK for example. That would most likely enable Unity to enter openSUSE. There's a lot of work done in GNOME:Ayatana and it's marked on the changelogs with 'nmarques@opensuse.org', which doesn't exist anymore (not that I care). If one wants to ask something, might be hard (or maybe not) to find me around, thus forcing people to invest maybe more time than necessary because they can't contact the author of a patch or package.
That should be the real reason why mails should be kept, at least it seems more reasonable and justified than just 'recognition for past work'.
I didn't mean the e-mail address was the acknowledgment of past contribution, the "honorary member" is. Sorry for not being clear on that point. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org