Good morning
most of you seem that you did not read the "we will send
them an e-mail asking whether they still wants to be a member. A response to
that email will automatically count as activity and preserve the Members
status. If there is no response within 30 days of the notification, the Member
will be 'retired' and be considered a 'Member emeritus"
part.
If someone is actually using the address he/she will just respond to
the mail and no problem. If people won't , for 30 days, then as I
understand it they don't use it that much so no problem. I know
people can think of that rare situation where an active member is on
the hospital for 32 days so they will loose the e-mail because of
that, or similar examples but if that is the case I believe the board
and the members committee can work this out when this guy will send an
email to ask what happened. Let's not spent more time talking about
that kind of stuff...
The voting situation is something important but here it is mentioned
as an example of activeness. If a member does not vote but either is
active on other parts of the project or respond to the email will not
loose membership and then the community will be able to sit down and
look upon the potential problem that only X number of members vote out
of the Y number. Now days it seem that 3/4 of the members just do not
care about the governess of the project and we have to know if that is
really the case so that we(as a board) can try to fix it, because if
that is really the case(which I don't think so) it looks ugly.
Have fun
Kostas
2016-03-21 8:36 GMT+02:00 Michal Kubecek
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 06:56:25AM +0100, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
I would have to agree - leave the e-mail forwarder in place, and the IRC cloak (though I'm with Christian - I've been waiting for several years for my IRC cloak to be set up, but I'm not on IRC that much anyways, so that bothers me a lot less). Breaking an e-mail address that people might use just because they don't care to vote seems excessive.
It is not because they don't care to vote, it is because we haven't seen any activity from them and they did not react to warnings that they will loose it. AFAIK domain registrators does it in similar manner. They send you few email-s and if you don't react, you loose the e-mail. We can send several mails as well.
I'm afraid you miss an important point: completely breaking an address that might appear on many places (forums, mailing list archives, git repositories, package changelogs, ...) is going to hit not only those inactive members (You want to "punish" them? No problem with that.) but potentially everyone else as well (and I do have problem with that). I often find an e-mail address at a few year old commit or a changelog entry and need to contact the author. So I agree that what you proposed would in fact discourage members from actively using the address unless they believe they are going to be active members forever (which, honestly, would mean they are not very realistic].
For domain registrators and commercial e-mail services, this kind of behaviour can be understood. But with opensuse.org, few hundreds of addresses and (IMHO) no extensive traffic? I agree that it's far from necessary.
How about a compromise? Some MUA implement a feature that they can reject an e-mail for certain account but send a message like "user ... is no longer active, please use address ... instead" to the sender. And even if they don't, it can be trivially implemented in procmail or similar. I believe this would allow you to make the point but would still allow others to contact those "retired members" (as long as the other address works but that's SEP).
Michal Kubeček
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